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Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #2081410
my entries for the Construct Cup
#929085 added February 17, 2018 at 11:43pm
Restrictions: None
to J. and E. and B. and all the rest
your words
are like a string of lanterns
marking the path from
a person with ideas
in his head, which someday
would be written,
to a writer—they give me hope
for my own words.
I follow you through
the years spent
writing on napkins at coffee shops
while mixing drinks between
sentences—I follow you
through the endless stamps
sending words out
into the aether,
hoping for discovery—I
follow you through the time
when the only people
still believing were your wife
and your mother, and even they
were more inclined to send you
to do laundry
than to your desk to write more.
we aren’t so different,
you and I, although I
stumble sometimes
as I follow your torch—
someday, perhaps, my lanterns will
burn brighter than yours—
but if so, it will be because
you gave me a path
that lead to the stars.

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