The Art of Writing
Writing is a tedious yet complicated task,
encompassing body and soul,
capturing your spirit in a perceptive mask,
employing words to create a mystic role.

Inscribing the essences of humanity,
besieged in conflict of thought,
absence of restrictive moral vanity,
for the word can not be brought.

Composing is a joyous creative art form,
painting a picture with descriptive words,
a canvas of it's own, never torn,
soaring free with the solitude of the birds.

Unlimited bounds of rhythm and rhyme,
beckoning the darkness as well as the light,
setting the mood of uncertainty in time,
Perpetual wisdom never fading in the night.

Writing expands the horizon of our insight,
from the shadows and depths of our conception,
to the hollows of our own final delight,
expanding the vast realms of reality and perception.

Samuel E. Stone
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