Gotta write, gotta put out the light,

Can’t sleep till I, on paper, write,

Wanna sleep though sometime tonight…

Like an addiction,

I must write of fiction,

Wanting to sleep is a contradiction,

A sickness I do have, writing is an affliction…

Past the point of self indulgence,

I must seem to you to be pretty dense,

Though writing is what we all do love,

Forcibly I write quite overly intense,

When I do not write,

I feel rising within malcontent…

            © ed ~ 10/4/05