Yes / No
Do you have a favorite dress?
Do you have enough food to eat?
Do you have access to clean water?
Do you have a safe place to sleep?
Do you have warm and loving relationships?
How about a fulfilling career?
Do you feel confident and secure about your skills?
Are you valued and seen?
Do you feel a sense of fulfillment?
Do you know who you are?
Are you realizing your full potential?
Existential much?
Or grateful enough?
Bit by Bit
How does one eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
They say.
Why would one eat an elephant?
I ask.
I’d befriend one.
Oh, they have no patience
For my silly nonsense.
Bit by bit.
Step by step.
One day at a time.
They say that to me.
I repeat to myself.
In my bones,
I reject that.
It is not true.
We are forever.
Some bits,
steps,
one days,
are too beautiful to let go.
I hoard.
I hoard them.
I hoard them tirelessly.
Then tomorrow comes.
Everything hits
Refresh.
Bit by bit.
Step by step.
One day at a time.
They leave me behind.
I am foolish
And slow.
They damn me
For the truth I know.
Why Writing?
Because nothing else does it for me.
All of me
Is spent
When writing.
Someone else’s answer.
Born to write?
Maybe so.
Maybe not.
You love it?
No, love alone is not enough.
I want to know truth.
I want to wake up.
I want to help.
That’s why I write.
