reasons i am not allowed crayons

this is old: originally posted at http://allpoetry.com/poem/6334895 at: Apr 10 1:09 PM 2010

 

 

 

when i was a child,
i was forever scrawling on white-washed walls,
yearning to leave some form of mark upon the empty plane.

and now i just let letters and ideas leak from my pen,
wherever they may end up.

so as to show them i am here.