Were Not For You

Were Not For You

 

Were not for you,

my words would not come,

spilling to the page like happy children

anxious to see what the world holds for them.

 

Were not for you,

my thoughts would cloud

and thicken, clumped together,

incoherent and ignored.

 

Were not for you,

my song would forever go unsung

except in the empty sadness

of my mind.

 

Yet for you

they do come

as easily and natural as if they had a right to be

all along.

 

And so you

can take the credit or the blame, your choice.

But were it not for you,

my soul would have no voice.

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