Creative Reprieve

I write so I don’t break

So that the pain of the world doesn’t bury me

So that my own pain doesn’t consume me

I write so I don’t drown

Every word on paper another breath of fresh air

Every line a life raft helping to stay afloat

I write so I remember

The feelings and emotions that would typically blind me having a place to dissolve

The falsehoods that cut me having a place to mend

I write to live

A conduit for the truth that wants to express through me

A channel for the Divine to step into this world

I write so I don’t break.