Sooner or later
Writer’s need a real audience
Writers need someone
To listen
To what they have written
Unless it is a diary or a journal
When writers
Share their work
They give others
A chance to react
And respond
Those responses may be
Critiques, reviews, praise
Those responses may
Please, shock
Or surprise
Publishers exercise
The option
To reject
Which will never ever stop
Writers
Because there are millions
Of people out there
That have something
To say.
Perry Terrell is a poet and children’s story author who lives in Oakland, CA.