Lost For Words(CPlatt) To speak or not to speak, that is the question.
Well, it’s too late now, I’ve put my name down.
I sit at home trying to come up with something,
trying to find just the right words.
Margaret Atwood once said:
a word after a word, after a word,
is power.
But what if my words need recharging?

I wandered lonely as
the first time poet up on stage,
Wanting this poem to be perfect,
to have all the wonder of a Dylan Thomas childhood,
to dig with my pen like Seamus Heaney.

My dad gave me words of advice,
Write something witty,
write something edgy
write something dark.
You’re from Salford, son, he said,
Just like John Cooper Clarke.

It’s only words, as the song says,
but words are everything,
words are life.
Words count.
From will you marry me,
and congratulations it’s a girl,
to my letter of resignation
and I’m sorry for your loss.

I work on these words
late into the night
writing these pages,
telling myself over and over,
that I can do this,
that I’ve been writing stories for years,
and that poems are simply,
the other side of the same coin.

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