for Them

stop telling people you need credentials to write
when all you need is a pen
stop drawing pictures of the difference
between us and poets

none of it is true
not even when they told you
and you believed them

if your heart tells you to write
for fucks-sake
….WRITE
and put it out there
for all the world to see
suffer the ridicule
battle the fear

for every critic
there is someone who needs to hear
I write for them
for them …I’ll take these bullets