writing is not for the stable or sane

Once,

a man said to me,

“when you are happy,

and stable,

you will you be able to write.”

That’s not,

unfortunately,

how it works.

Writing is not for the stable

(or sane)

if evidence is to be gathered from

any other poet that has ever written.

Poets traffic on the bridges

between good and evil

love and loss

pain and healing

I walk

over one bridge,

back again.

But to stop traveling? 

no, no

we're like those fish

that die if they stop swimming.

stability, and sanity, will kill
(our creativity)

Our job is one of reconciliation -

somehow

we must find a way to speak

to the love

and pain

inside of us. 

and to figure out

(if we can)

some way to live with both.