Leroy Day, When You Write Something

When you write something:

It comes through your mind’s eye traveling through your soul’s lips.

When you write something:

You know it’s yours, unmistakable, rolling through your very mentality, down through your spine’s eye, and out through your fingertips.

When you write something:

Life’s breath is a picture or a page, in a picture, on a page, in words— like a bird out of a cage— like a bird.

When you write something:

You speak without your lips, you talk without opening your mouth, you express yourself without using your fingertips—

When you write something.

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