I Write

I Write

I choose a random page
from the journal
to begin a story
that I have told before.
Although still,
I cannot speak
most of these words aloud.
A random page
for a random crime.
I remind myself as I write,
that it was another place,
another time.
There is a phrase
so often
that I repeat in my mind,
and as I write,
it is the anchor
that holds my pen to the page.
"I am here, I am now."

Angela Minard 2008