What is Writing for You?

What is Writing for You?
By Aileen McPherson

Why write you might as well
ask why breathe, why live.
Writing is a way to transform
thoughts into words you can share.
Thoughts that were abstract become
concrete when we use words
to create a scene or depict a dream.
Memories are shared, categorized
and declared. It’s all or nothing,
while Nothing is Everything and
Writing is All.
What is left? Do you stand, sit, or crawl?
Claw your way through the day,
pen in hand, paper is the land,
making a new world one day at a time.
What is writing for me?
Writing is a release, a chance
to heal, a way to share, a way
to create and reshape my world,
and be the change, the good
I want to see, feel and hear
in the world.
One page at a time.