The Discovery

age 16, locked up in your room upstairs

pen to paper, a feverish dream turning into reality before your eyes

the stunned, yet also of-course feeling:

you're a writer

you can create something that wasn't there before

and also-

the Hell you live through called your family

the schizophrenic bi-polar mother pacing downstairs

the tea kettle whistling without cease, why won't she stop it

the father who avoids it all, comes home from work and just collapses

so much energy given - so little ever returned

all of this, dear boy

dear adventurer, all of it

can be REWRITTEN.