If You Could See Me

by Anneliese M. Kvamme

If you could see me taking up my pen
You would, perhaps, not see the whirl inside
Of hope and fear, of dread regrets I hold,
Beneath the calm I show to all the world.
No other way I've found to well dispell
The hidden hurts and anguished feelings there.
My words release the tensions, for a time,
Bring order as I struggle for the rhyme
And meter of a sonnet or a verse--
Seek peace within the discipline of words.
So when the storm becomes too much to bear,
I write to you, and find great solace there.
copyright © Anneliese M. Kvamme

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