Commitment

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You need to write it till you get it right.
That is your job; what you were born to do.
It might not take a lifetime, but it might.

Sure, it’s a burden sometimes, but it’s light:
you make the rules, which then apply to you.
That’s how you write it till you get it right,

Having that goal, keeping it plain in sight,
yet easing up, or off, since that works too.
It might not take a lifetime, but it might.

At times the task’s a breeze, at times it’s tight
going, a maze, where every problem’s new
and you just need to write to get it right,

Write on, Hell take the cost, by day, by night,
alone, unknown, and yes, the perks are few,
but though it takes a lifetime (and it might),

What’s better than commitment to a fight
that brings your best out, focused on what’s true?
You have one purpose: Write it till it’s right.
It might not take a lifetime. But it might.

~ Bruce Bennett