Keep writing

Writing doesn’t have to be for anyone

or anything.

A stream of consciousness where

you can let your heart flow

to your fingertips

and seep into the page.

No second checks.

No deletes.

Because you can’t delete your heart.

No matter how hard you try.

As a writer I am human.

Full of successes and mistakes

(mostly mistakes)

but trying her best

(not always enough).

But overall a way to let loose the aches of the heart that keep

pounding and pounding, rattling against your chest,

pulling you to the ground with the weight of the world.

Because the weight of the world is never on your shoulders;

it’s on your heart.

Writing opens the cages we can’t see.

It can help the writer be free

and ultimately lets them just be

As people compare people,

poets compare poems

and hearts compare hearts.

“Why can’t I be more eloquent?

Why do I use so many statements and paragraphs?

Why don’t I have enough likes?”

As people compare people,

poets compare poems

and hearts compare hearts.

It’s the human nature,

yet with human nature we have been gifted the blessing

of the power of words.

And the power of sharing.

The ability and confidence

to post your heart

onto a screen

and watch it get judged.

Yet, keep writing, hearts.

Because no matter how dark or strange you may seem,

you are beautiful and unique.

Keep writing, hearts,

and let the world know who you

truly are