Dónall Dempsey - I Don't Write Poetry

I don't write poetry
...it writes me

dips into
my life

(every now and then)

and in a scribbled scrawl
or beautiful caligraphy

writes what I am
all about

the mystery
of my blood

when I am in love

the mystery of how
your voice transforms me

from just a man
to a man who loves and is loved.

The mystery
of the mystery

of what I will be

what I will amount to.

I don't write poetry
...it writes me.

I don't write poetry
...it happens.

And so, if it so
chooses

to write with me

I want my poetry
to say

I was more me
than I could ever be

because of you

became my self
through loving you.

Love, like poetry
is a happening

it becomes one

rather than...

and so we become
the poetry that is us

calling this strange writing
into being

the writing
we call

love.

Dónall Dempsey

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