every soul a story

You could be the author
of your very own masterpiece
(if you stop reading those of others).

There’s no second draft, but still
the pen is yours for the taking
and rules yours for the breaking,
so stifle not a single thought.

You are your own audience,
just write what you believe to be
words you yourself would love to read.

Do what it takes to fill your book
(spell words how they sound
or ink them in blood onto folds of skin)
for no matter how your story reads,
I’d still tear every fresh page from my bones
and give them to you just to keep it from ending.