Inconsequential

When the well is empty can it be as simple as writing this very sentence? By starting this poem am I bringing justice? Moving women and men to tears? What are these words I let drip from me just as I would let drip the snot from my nose? Can something so inconsequential shatter perceptions? My own heart feels…

When the well is empty can it be as simple as writing this very sentence?

By starting this poem am I bringing justice? Moving women and men to tears? What are these words I let drip from me just as I would let drip the snot from my nose? Can something so inconsequential shatter perceptions? My own heart feels so full of words once I start that I fear if I don’t get the words out it may simply rupture and I with it. And then what? The potential to move men to tears, to shatter perceptions would be lost and I surely would be inconsequential.

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