You ask me why I write?
I write because I am mortal
I write because time is mine enemy

you ask why I write?
my name may not be remembered
my words may not live on
yet I still write

you ask why I write?
I write for you and me
I write for the world around me
I write for the ones on the front lines
I write for the ones on the front at home
I write for my countrymen
I write for black and white
I write for the unborn life
I write for the wrongs done
I write to make them right
I write for present and future
I write for the past
for this life is stuck on repeat
I write to leave this world behind
not to be on cloud nine
but to be wholly thine
I write for the sea and air
and the land between
I write for Father God
I write for Mother Nature

you ask why I write?
I write to do battle
for the pen is not a sword
but it leaves scars that cannot heal
it defends what is real
for the battle for the mind
is waged on the field of the soul
my war drum is my heart beating
my cadence of attack is the music I make
my sword is this pen
my shield is this page
my horse is this computer
my enemies are many
my allies are on one hand
you cannot die
and I am not afraid to
for in death these words live on

you ask why I write?
I ask you to step into my world
dominated by pain and sacrifice
there is a light
there is a hope
for the fire that is lit inside of me
it cannot be quenched
it cannot be contained
you ask where this hope is
you don't see the light
when you look into these eyes
i ask if you see it now?
for the fire is inside
and the light shines
it covers this page
this pen is the torch
it is all that I am given
it is all that I need

You ask me why I write?
It is because I am full
I am full of fire irrepressible
I cannot help but
set the world around me ablaze

You ask me why I write.
I write because I am Immortal.