So many thoughts
Can’t keep them contained
I put them on paper
To make room in my brain

Sometimes poetic
Sometimes plain
Sometimes nonsense
Sometimes pain

I read and re-read
Edit and critique
These words on the page
That I dare not speak

An inspiring sentence
A sentence of joy
I long for a reader
This is my ploy

For without someone
To journey with me
My writing, yet published
Is but a diary.

Written by: Mechelle Ritchie Foster