Yin and Yang

Pen to paper
Needle to vein
Blood flows into words
Helping to keep me sane
cauterizing meter
Rehabilitating rhyme
Boosting the process
carried on by time
Pain is to the poet
What wind is to the sail
loves does to the writer
What the hammer does the nail
Emotions released through words and phrases
Helps to rid the ghosts it raises
Deeper to wider
as pain to knowledge
the depth of suffering
and the breadth of understanding
are the yin and yang of my emotional universe