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Set Me Free

February 19, 2014
By ClaireM. ELITE, Albany, New York
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I will never lose
my insatiable lust
for writing
Each time I pick up a
pencil or
contemplate the
barren blankness
of a new page
I am imbued with
something terrifying,
glorious and huge
Ah, there it is,
I think to myself
with a little smile,
that wild thing
living inside
of my rib cage,
ripping its way out
and unfurling
in the light.
And I sit there
at my desk
falling in love
for the thousandth
time with
the way words
set me free

© Annie M., Columbiana, OH

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