It doesn’t matter that
no one cares.
Keep writing. Do it.
It doesn’t matter. The
voice that tells you how
it’s crap.
The voice that
says it doesn’t matter.
The one that tells you
that good is not
good enough. That one.
The one that doesn’t
want you to create anything
because it is trying to save
what it knows. The voice
that tells you that it knows
but doesn’t. Keep writing.
Don’t stop. Don’t listen.
Don’t follow the path.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
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