Diarist

Dave BontaContemplative

I write what I write being unwilling to speak

the heart is the devil I pray to nobody else made me beat

in the quick red time of an evening walk

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 26 May 1663.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Contemplative
Topics:: heart, walk, evening, writing

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The speaker is a diarist, someone who puts things on paper because speaking aloud feels impossible. The opening lines admit this plainly: writing is a substitute for talking, a way to say something without having to say it to anyone.

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