The Shine Journal

I Write

by

Kim Lombardi

I write because I’m not willing to let you take my words.

Not willing to let you twist them into

what you would like them to be.

I write because it’s final.

Because whether someone’s looking or not

my words never change. They can’t be erased by distracting eyes.

Life consumes so much of me-

these testimonies are my only sanction,

My freedom from the tortures on my soul.

I write to hide my secrets, to keep them in the dark,

Away from the truth that will set me free.

To effortlessly lose my mind.

So I don’t have to speak through the tears.

Words spit from my mouth you don’t understand,

and I don’t understand your lies.

My pen possibly penetrates your ignorance.

I write to shed light on the lie that you live every day.

That you give me life when reality is-

You sicken the air that I breathe.

I write because I feel.

I write to divulge these true feelings,

Things I’m too scared to voice for fear of making them real.

Only they’ve become so real, no one can hide.

So I write to let the pain out.

I write because society tells me not to. 

Tells me keep it to myself.

I write to save a life,

Mine, and quite possibly,

Yours.