I Collect Names

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*As a writer, I’m a collector of names, names that hold special meaning, names of loved ones past and present, names hold power whether or not we realize it.

I collect names

The way some collect trinkets,

Written in the pages

Of novels and poetry

Lying somewhere between

Truth and fiction.

I gobble truths and fiction

In storylines

That are meant to

Inspire

And make you

Feel

Perhaps in ways

You never have

Before.

I breathe life

Into the page

With fingers

Across Keyboards,

And notes in notebooks

Of all shapes

And sizes.

I give birth to ideas

And feel the pain

They feel

I hurt with them

And celebrate

With them.

(C) Michelle R Kidwell

January.13.2019