I write
So I can breathe
A blank page 
Is suffocating
Pen to paper
Pierces a hole
In the walls
Of this vacuum
And the words
Are air

I write
So I can sleep
My dreams are free
When I have 
Taken out my tangled
Thoughts
And pressed them 
Between the pages
Like flowers
Left to dry

I write
So I can feel -
Like getting up
From kneeling too long
In one spot
The pain is excruciating
For a moment
Then the relief
That I am no longer
Numb

I write 
So I can live
And because I live
And sometimes
I write
In order to 
Help someone else
To live