How do you write?

With verve? With lightness? With certainty?

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Do you write with passion 
and with verve?
Do you write with buoyancy—
an effervescent sense of self.

Do you conjure words from the air 
like a filament catching the breeze.
Or do you find just the right rythym—
to match the humming of the river
as it meanders through the rock.

Do you feel tone like crisp sheets on a
fresh spring bed. 
Letting the scent of the linen
meander around your fingertips
before putting pen to page.

Do you know exactly where your soul
and the words you know
meet?

Why they flow so freely through your body
or chose you for their particular
articulation that day?

Can you sense the beauty that exists
in the play between words and space
and do you ever wonder why we’ve been granted such a gift?

To carry language in our hearts, 
to make sense of the world,
particularly when all feels so adrift. 

To weave the wonders of the universe 
onto a surface made from trees
across timelines we will never see.

To ferry words, 
just like a love song whispered through the ages, 
to ears we may never meet. 

To make the meetings of two souls a single point 
along an infinite line
if only just for that moment in time.

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