Other Fan Fiction / Original Poetry Fan Fiction ❯ Why I Write ❯ Why I Write ( Chapter 1 )

Why I Write
By
Meredith Heller
Posted by
Zona Rose

I write to hear my voice, because there are places of honesty
and beauty that I go in my writing that I can't always go in my life,
and I must. When I write, I'll let the parts of me that hold my breath,
breathe. I write to let the light into my being and let darkness out, to
own myself, capturing the rhythms of my cycles: journeys into the abyss,
travels through glory. I write to allow myself to feel, climb inside my
emotions and explore their reaches and textures, summon my tears, let
them wash me hot and clean then drain me empty and free. I write myself
alive and reborn, whole and holy, to experience myself transformed. I write
because I hurt and because I love, and so I won't lose anything. And because
I am lonely, sensual, and spiritual, and I need to make contact with the divine,
and writing for me is like touching: it is rubbing and rolling my body against  
the divine until my boundaries dissolve and I no longer know where I start and
where I stop: I become part of the universal hum. I write to make myself eternal,
leave a piece of me stained into the ethers. I write because I believe Goddess
listens for the places where we love and own ourselves. I write to keep myself
company, keep myself honest, keep from watching TV.
I write to keep my Muse intrigued.
I write because I can't draw.
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