Steem Poetry Slam Challenge Entry: Guided By The Pen (An Original Poem)

The journey that brought me here has weaved its way

Through the multiple fields I found each day

Into uncharted waters that washed away

The lingering thoughts

Of what it is I wish to say

The pen it calls me to reach out now

The pen it speaks slowly to me and asks me how

How it is that I can voice a thought that I have held so tightly

And not be broken by it all?

An experience proffered to a faceless crowd

Has awoken an anxiety from the depths it calls home

Do I really know the consequences of these actions I wish to own?

Or suffer from my endless need to know

To know why the pen calls me to seize its strength

Channel my thoughts through its graceful length

And pour it all out into a world unknown

So I may know it as my own

An old world is passed over

A new world is born

As I pour my thoughts into written words

Guided by the pen

And my need to learn

To let it all go

And trust