Oh, to be a writer

To be that tip top, free-thinking, will o’ the wisp of spirit, words set down to flame…

oh, for that sweet freedom, the self-indulgence of massaging one’s truths

into the shape of a man, a woman, a doer, a deed

Oh, to be a writer

to say the things no one else can say

to be truly unique

just like all the other writers

and yet, none