Writing These Days

Writing These Days

It's hard to write these now,

so far from the time when they used to be necessity.

So hard that someone might read

or be insulted by these words.

So hard in that expressions can be used or taken

and used constructed to deconstruct what I've made now around me.

Pillars of salt and sand

of looking back

and reminding myself

that the bad is good.

And that writing comes with healing

of vague honesty and cryptic feelings.

-Matthew Koutzun