To Write

This is my entry for Holly's first Writing.com contest...

To Write

2/18/07

What is it
To write?

What does it mean
And what is its purpose?

Is it the act of putting pen to paper
Or fingers to keys?
Is it having a thought
Running free as you please?

For some, writing is therapy
As jumbled up emotions tumble out across a page
Clarity is found which allows the author to move on.

For others writing is a necessity
Be it for school
Or for pleasure
There is an almost obsessive quality to this need –
I must get it out
Else stress will build inside the mind
Until I cannot think -
I must release these notions from my cranial cage.

And so I write
Slowly at first
And then faster still
Till the page resembles
A “vocabulary spill”.

To write is to combine each of these things
And, seeking a visit from an inspirational muse,
I sit here and ponder
Which words I shall use
To write.