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Sep 17, 2008
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the feeling will never leave me alone
to write,just to write alone
was like rum is to the drunks quench
or like climax is to the sexually addicted,
then as the reign of heat beside a burning log
so was this fire kindled, just by writing
to write,not with intense vocabulary,
the complex words i knew them few
but simple syllables i knew them a lot
and yes,like those thirsty for blood,then killing
i felt the slake more than blood quenched theirs
to write,that feeling by a book
and ink that pours the expression of emotion
that feeling alone was enough inspiration,
then i start by one letter,then two
and let the spirit of the ink bewitch me
was like rum is to the drunks quench
or like climax is to the sexually addicted,
then as the reign of heat beside a burning log
so was this fire kindled, just by writing
to write,not with intense vocabulary,
the complex words i knew them few
but simple syllables i knew them a lot
and yes,like those thirsty for blood,then killing
i felt the slake more than blood quenched theirs
to write,that feeling by a book
and ink that pours the expression of emotion
that feeling alone was enough inspiration,
then i start by one letter,then two
and let the spirit of the ink bewitch me
— emeka ozurumba, Sep 17, 2008
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17 years 8 months ago
This is a powerful poem