writers

we like to hear that writers are
often
told what
to create with their inner fire

I will tell you the secret: there is none.

writers chase back and forth
trying to find the word.

are you the word?

they will ask.

they are desperate
like the lover.

a writer will not tell you his greatest secret
of trying.
a writer
in fact,
will not tell you anything at all.

some only speak to nothing.
they will look at nothing
and
they will hold themselves
as the greatest challenge to conquer.

the ones that try find that their
is no challenge.
they are better off
doing something else like
falling in love
or filling the empty space
with nothing
at all.

it is the ones that surrender that
move on to entertain the
masses.

but what they don't understand
is that they began
to
stay away from them
in the first place.

but what no one seems to
understand
is why anyone
would want to stay away
from them
in the first place.