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(an open letter to non-writers.)

February 25, 2013
By jennyfaire BRONZE, East Williston, New York
jennyfaire BRONZE, East Williston, New York
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Favorite Quote:
write hard and clear about what hurts.


you told me you don’t like to write because you’d rather forget
the bad things, and you’ll remember the good anyway
so what’s the point?

this is the point:
to say, i bled for you
i was awake all night, i wrote this for you, don’t you see?
i love you so much that it hurts;
i love you so much that i’d rather remember
that i fought for this: every word
every comma
was a struggle. hemingway was wrong.
there is everything to writing, or maybe i just don’t bleed as easily.

the words get tangled in my veins; they get lost
on the journey from heart to fingertips.
my body is a dictionary, but catching language is
like trying to pin down water.

i wonder if this is what hell feels like: to know you have something beautiful
trapped inside your body
but you cannot let it out.

i keep trying, but i still don’t know how to say
i created something beautiful out of every scar,
out of every heartbeat and heartbreak and heartache; here it is,
wrapped in skin and
tied with my best capillaries.

i suffered through it all just to find a way to tell you. don’t you see?

god took adam’s rib and made eve; i
tore out my heart
and wrote this for you.



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Ventus said...
on Sep. 10 2013 at 8:51 pm
holy crap this is amazing and perfect I don't even