Writing Helps

if you
are blue
it helps to write
e’en something trite
because it often spreads
a cloud from ‘round our heads

head off this cunning, baffling ache
that somehow seems to want to break
our spirits, ‘til they simply scream, in pain;
they cannot find that strength to try  — again,
so we avoid all friends with whom we share our joy
but we will pull ourselves back up — our pens employ

employing all our gifts with new proclivity
and must’ring ev’ry ounce of creativity . . .
recycling all our tears from depths of hell
we’d dip’t into the deepest, darkest well
to cool them as they shed their gray
now glist’ning in the light of day

dayspring of joy, they shed
the darkness in our head.
It’s helped to write;
no longer trite,
bright blue
for you

_{© MLee Dickens'son 27 April 2005
Daniel J Ricketts}