Heartfelt Prose Poem by David Whalen

One of the prime requisites
In the writing
of heartfelt prose

Is the sharp pain
of experience
Of loss…and of woes

You have to bleed…
To have been wounded…
To suffer so sadly

To have won love
Then lost it…
Regretted it madly

To have suffered the slings
Of outrageous fate
To have been treated e’er so coldly

To have tasted the bile
Of unbridled hate
And of love proferred so boldly

To have felt the passion
Of someone you loved
had them push away.. Or pull you up close

These are some of the seeds
That take root in the needs
In the writer of…heartfelt prose