Authors Notes: I had found this some time ago in a book, as well as on her wet site, and it gave me inspiration from time to time in my writing. This is something that I want to share with you my readers, as maybe this will give you inspiration as well. I was just going to put this on my profile but then I thought it was too beautiful not to post.

Disclaimer: I did not write this piece nor do I own the rights to it. If the original writer Meredith Heller wishes for me to take it down I will. Until that time I will keep this posted.

I hope you enjoy the read.

ZR };-

Why I Write

By

Meredith Heller

Posted by

Zona Rose

I write to hear my voice, because there are places of honesty

and beauty that I go in my writing that I can't always go in my life,

and I must. When I write, I'll let the parts of me that hold my breath,

breathe. I write to let the light into my being and let darkness out, to

own myself, capturing the rhythms of my cycles: journeys into the abyss,

travels through glory. I write to allow myself to feel, climb inside my

emotions and explore their reaches and textures, summon my tears, let

them wash me hot and clean then drain me empty and free. I write myself

alive and reborn, whole and holy, to experience myself transformed. I write

because I hurt and because I love, and so I won't lose anything. And because

I am lonely, sensual and spiritual, and I need to make contact with the divine,

and writing for me is like touching: it is rubbing and rolling my body against

the divine until my boundaries dissolve and I no longer know where I start and

where I stop: I become part of the universal hum. I write to make myself eternal,

leave a piece of me stained into the ethers. I write because I believe Goddess

listens for the places where we love and own ourselves. I write to keep myself

company, keep myself honest, keep from watching TV.

I write to keep my Muse intrigued.

I write because I can't draw.

Authors Notes: I hope that you enjoyed this little piece of beautiful writing. I don't even know if this actually belongs on this site or on fiction press, but I will actually be posting it to both of them.

Please review let me know what you think. Positive criticism is always welcomed, flamers of course we'll always be ignored.

In Love & Light,

Zona Rose };-