and why you mustn't either

Why I Must Never Stop Writing

Poetry frames my emotions
in the Oz between the abstract and concrete.
It becomes the silent hand
that tells me to be less tragic
and instead
write!
Poetry is what remains when the memory becomes a hazy
parallel reality-
the emotion that remains a sharp blade.
It is what I can show you and say
this is it, this is my story
and have it be enough.
My poems are my undisciplined children
that will live beyond me,
the one word with an always different meaning.
It exists in a dark alley behind my apartment
lit by a single, flickering lamp post.
In bed at night, when the world prepares to recycle,
poetry becomes the lone vestige
to differentiate between the blackholes
that only grow
with time.
Knowing that I must write forces me to find
poetry
in everything,
and writing becomes easier.
The reasons that I must never stop writing
are the same reasons
why I should write poetry in the first place.