Can I Improve My Writing Skills? Poem by Denis Martindale

Can I improve my writing skills beyond the skills I've got
Such that my writing gives me chills and thrills me on-the-spot?
Can I express true happiness, gladness and sadness, too,
Such that in time I come to bless my readers just like you?
Can I transport us to the stars and planets out of sight
Such that we learn what comes to pass out there by day and night?
Can I reach out beyond the page, beyond the Internet
Such that no matter what your age God's wisdom you can get?
Can I explain the complex things in words most understand
Such that I share the King of Kings and what the Lord has planned?

Can I reveal what's good as gold, the facts you need to know,
Such that new stories can be told before my time to go?
Can I set free the finest themes from my mind then to yours
Such that you see these more than dreams and true faith reassures?
Can I do more through prayer and love with brand new poetry
Such that in time I've done enough to leave a legacy?
If yes, then I must take my time to meditate a while,
Before I write what proves sublime, perhaps to make you smile.
It's up to me to bless Mankind each time I do my part
As long as rhymes stay on my mind and nestle in my heart…


Denis Martindale July 2020.