I often ask myself
whether or not to put those ideas
on the page, let them
run free in fields of lowercase letters.


I can’t decide whether or not to put those ideas forward,
let them soar, revel in
nothingness
and run free in fields of lowercase letters.
How can I make choices for them?

To let them soar, revel in nothingness
might be terribly cruel.
Could I really make choices for them?
I never asked to be their shepherd.

I might be terribly cruel
all the same
because I never asked to be their shepherd.
They’re better off here, under someone else.

It’s all the same, in the end,
to look on the page and let my ideas go.
“Are they better off here, under someone else?”
I far too often ask myself.