ACHES [Wattys Winner 2015]

I live in my words

Where I live all my fantasies & aspirations,

Where I sail through all my fears and deprivations,

Where I am the protagonist,

Where I make his life a living hell,

Where I am love,

Where I am hatred,

Where I love peace and make war.

Where I exist in every phrase,

Yet not directly in meanings,

There is where I dwell,

In between those lines not literally,

In between those spaces and commas silently.

I am, the soul of the story that transiently lives,

I am, the body that holds the swords of my convictions,

I am a writer,

I live in my words.