Why I Write
by John Casey
Why I Write
It is one’s right, and even duty, to
write one’s self into existence. The need
to say ‘this happened and I lived through
this, and this is how it felt like; this is
how I remembered, and this is how I survived.’
If we take time to write about ourselves
others can have a deeper understanding of us.
with no books, no journals, no memoirs, our lives,
and knowledge will be lost and our lives become faint sketches.
If you want someone to know how and why you
lived; what drove you and what hurt you; what
you saw and what you feared, you need to write it down.
So I will write as proof that I have lived.
Sometimes my memory of a particular past
required revisions as to the exactly, and
provided freedom to let my stories just come
tumbling out.
16 Mar 2017
John Casey
435 ½ Bluff St.
Alton, IL 62002