Is Not

 

Writing's not a comfy chair

Alan Bennett said 


And I thought 

A person's not a house

Character's not clothes

Love is not a bunch of roses

A cloud really is a cloud

When is it not

And rain is just the rain until

The future forms

A flooded land

Whereupon we'll wade

Or swim while waiting

for a miracle 

to come 



Salvation is

Strong arms pulling me

from the wreckage pile,

A hero's heart who put to sea

in raging storms to rescue 

those in peril running scared,

Gentle hands who guided 

and is not 

immune to fear 

but more attuned to care



The writer's brain has blocked

An old pain, unspeakable thing














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