A POEM

STORIES I WILL NEVER WRITE

                                                           

I will never write about driving

a car or giving birth. I will never

write about how it feels to swim

in the deep blue sea. I will never

write about riding horses or

bicycles even though I tried both,

once.  I will never write about

hoarding.  I am a purger, a discarder.

I clean up, toss out, put away. I will

never write about being a sister or

an aunt. Being an only child has always

been my burden. I will never write

about not writing because I do, I

write, I am a writer who writes even

when I’m not writing. Because it settles me.

Because I have stories to tell.

Because,

when I read my writing,

I look at the audience and see their eyes.