With Every Drop of Ink (repost)

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Open Poetry #41

With Every Drop of Ink (repost)

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2008-01-24 09:47 PM

Every drop of ink I use-
Is like a drop of blood…
A bit of essence of myself-
A seeming, endless flood.
Revealing secrets unconfessed-
Obligations yet unmet…
A glimpse into my inner parts…
Some don’t care, and most forget.
A glimpse of what I might have been-
And many things I never was..
And yet I write, and write again..
Oh, tell me.. is there not a cause?
A cause! Why yes! To carve our names
Like children do on restroom walls-
Desiring but to leave a trace…
In life… before the Shadow calls.
Yet I am less, the more I write…
With loss of essence, we all shrink…
As blood from wrists, which have been slashed
We die with every drop of ink.

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2008-01-24 09:51 PM

I loved this, but I like to think that the more we share, the more we have to offer....

I always really enjoy reading you.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2008-01-24 10:11 PM

I love your poem John, very thought provoking, but I think we are better off and our soul grows when we have something (rather than nothing) to offer. You clearly have something to offer.
Ida

TomMark
Member Elite

since 2007-07-27

Posts 2133
LA,CA

3 posted 2008-01-24 11:57 PM

We die with every drop of ink
yes.

Let the ink bloom a field.

Love the read.
Tom

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