The Poems From The Higher Realm Poem by RIC BASTASA

keep writing
to keep you writing
you must listen
and admit that all these words
do not come from you
but from a higher source
which even if you
are given wings
you cannot find where they
all come from
for they are not birds on
their nests
where you can steal the eggs
and cook them
for your own consumption.

keep listening from the murmurs
of your heart
and then let every nerve in your
flesh sing,

why bother about words?
or how you knit them?
you are but a messenger only
and your poems
are not actually yours.