Sewanee Young Writers Conference
Dead Before Life
by Julia Debski
Day in, day out,
write
Be good, be great, be the best
Don’t eat, don’t sleep,
write
Ideas flood by
Drowning the pen and paper
No sleep, it’s for the weak,
write
Click clack of keys
The children of others being born
Nothing of my own
It was washed away with
The tide
Laugh, cry
Hands shake,
write
Breath life into something that
Does not yet exist
A stillborn baby
Presented to the world 4 months too early.
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