Why Write?

Assignment for creative writing class

I write to comprehend.
I write to inspire
I write to feel
I write to embrace

I write to comprehend.
An understanding
Get a grasp on an emotion and let it all out
To touch others
Make them get an insight on your work.

I write to inspire.
Those who feel as though they are isolated
Trapped within their minds without hope
I let the inspiration, a helping word, glide
Out of a scribbling pen onto a page
I bleed the soft words onto a white lined campus
My writing is to let loose
An identification
A clearer concept
A crystal feeling.

I write to feel.
To express
To demolish a barrier that sets itself around my heart
To spread wide and far
To cry the angst, the sadness, the happiness through ink droplets.

I write to embrace.
A realization
An acceptance
Surround myself with my words and my emotions
To take in a hard truth.

I write to write.

-2007