When I read
What others have written
I am impressed and amazed
with the way
the words they write all flow
like a beautiful and raging river
and fit perfectly together like the
pieces of a puzzle to create a
greater more powerful and meaningful
work of art.
And when I write
the words are there, stuck in my
throat as I try to force them up
and when they do come, it is
like vomiting up a jumbled mess of
words that must be carefully
sorted into sensible and meaningful
sentences which always seem, to be
missing something, like a flower that
has dropped one of its petals or
an ant who has had a leg
ripped off by a schoolboy
because my writing is fine
it’s just not complete
not fully there and not perfect
and symmetrical, it’s only
decent
What you don't see, is that the others' words started as that jumbled mess. Most writers have to sort through that mess and form the completed product. That is why we have drafts. If you could only see what I see in your writing, the thoughtfulness, the beauty...Perfection and symmetry are boring...there is beauty in the flower missing the petal, it is a reflection of real ,life, which is what we really wish to explore when we write, the real, the raw, the world.
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