Bravery

You my readers make me brave.  I am sure others too have poems and posts backed up in drafts at WordPress that never see the light of day as the inner critic vetos them pretty relentlessly.   I know for me I am amazed to see a like appear on some pieces of writing or poetry and wonder if it is or is not ‘good’ or has value and then I will look back at a post someone has ‘liked’ more recently and actually think “Wow, did I write that?”  But maybe I didnt or maybe I was just the scribe for some poetry that wanted to move through me, that alighted like a butterfly in my mind or rose up like those fish of dream thought from my unconscious.

The creative process is so quixotic and it can not be pinned down or easily defined, just like the elemental powers of wind and water and fire.   And so I use my courage to post something anyway, releasing it from the locked vault barred by the inner critic with shudder and at times great anxiety.   I don’t know why we have this anxiety but maybe it is just a part of our human condition and is a fear we have to challenge every day in order to live a truely creative life.