Writer's write

+ of writer's write +
Are the people reading as you sleep
Do your words infect and into supine dreams creep
Are your characters capturing memories alive
Do your stories lift morale as through life they strive.

Every word you load and drop
Concepts you develop and headline crop
Are there people reading your tales
As you sleep and dream of whales

From Byron Bay to Port Fairy headland
Are your words written devouring the land
Sentences spun from tree to tree
Multiplying cross desert wide and free.

Did you think when first you wrote
In time people shall my words qoute
Lift an idea immortalised in ink
Stop and make others think

Did your story speak of loving joys
Or retell ancient political ploys
How did you hold the reader's gaze
Distract them from life's busy daily maze

A friend create of whom they wish to read
A friend in whom they can believe
From Harry Potter to Citizen Kane
All those heroes to the cowards vain

All the words in all the time
And those preserved in iambic rhyme
Shakespeare who knew our frailties clear
Could make us monsters and make us dear

All of us who write relate
To the each and every characters fate
For a tiny part of us made each
To ensure all stories are within reach.