Sometimes I wonder about
All the poems that have escaped
Because I didn't have the energy
To write the words when they washed over me

To all my Lines of Omission
Who could be poetry, a short story
A song. Even ideas for my novel
(which I haven't attended to recently)

To all of you
Please forgive me
Find your way back
Wherever you are
Stay long enough
To be inked in a draft

We can decide together
Where you belong
Penned forever

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