Words

How do I explain to you
Oh innocent souls
What to a writer
Is the value of a word.

How shall I explain to you
What to a writer
Is the significance of a sentence

How do I put in words
What to a writer
Is the loss of a paragraph-
Made word by word,
Sentence by sentence
Into what it is.

For, a writer does not merely write
But nurtures the upbringing
Of what the mind creates.