Writing For Myself-2

(Inspiration: Meat Loaf’s lyric found in Deb’s blog) And I won’t write a poem for a contest Whoever asks and whatever the provocation Day or night, rain or shine, east or west I wont write any more for a contest But, I would write that Yes, I would write that. No more wrestling with Aye Aye mistresses And Alouetting my cleansing rites Twisted poems and Burlesque twists Will no longer test my ragged wits Shadormas and Tyburns Will cease to be my nightmares Creatures of the night Will turn out to be my matters of delight And, I won't write for a contest But, I would write that. But about our fraught lives Hope and despair and injustice One love and its many variants Things on which I write for myself Would I quit writing on these too No..I won’t..I won’t But, I would not write for a contest But, I would write that Yes, I would write that. PS : Who cares? Why should anyone care? For Carol Brown's 'Write a poem for yourself' contest S.Jagathsimhan Nair, 30 sept 2011