At Home With My Writing Poem by RIC BASTASA

how often do i have to read
other people's work hoping that i may soon hone mine
and get
the admiration of other writers?

that is a long time ago and i guess
i have changed

whether admired or not we are all writers in our own ways

it is just a matter of self-expression
a way of telling those who will be left here that once we were here and we have written a lot, a legacy in words, that we are the ideas of our own time,

and time perhaps is glad about it
how we wrote and what we wrote for and whom

it's perfectly nice living life at your own pace
saying the words you want to say and leaving everything for the rest to see and judge

so to say, i am finally at home with my own words and style.