Writing from the Heart

Everything I write is, first and foremost, for me.
It is both a privilege and a luxury. 

I write to heal, to understand;
to shift emotions out of my system.

I write to move energy;
to have a thought move from my brain,
down through my arm
and into my hand and my fingers,
and flow through my pen
to be released on paper.

I write to relieve my pain and sadness and anger,
and to expand love and compassion and joy to others.

I write so that thoughts can be set free 
from circling in my head.

I write in silence, 
listening to the soft satisfying scratch
of pen meandering across paper;
and by solely focusing in to just this moment,
thoughts are suspended.

And there is peace.

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