From this pen protrudes a stain.
The stain is yellow and bends to my liking.
The stain is to show importance
where I might feel it necessary to accent.
Does this mean in the eyes of others
that this stain is important and should be recognized
beyond all other words of an author, being myself or another?
What I see as imminent in wisdom,
and concentrated in nature is only an opinion.
To be worthy of a higher privilege
is questionable.
This light that reflects
in notes of high reasoning
is so bright it is garish
and reflecting into the soul
my need for remembering this article.
If I had a highlighter of the soul,
what points would I mark?
Would they be ones of great achievement
or the darkest moments where death is near?
Would they be joyous or strife filled?
Would they make much sense to anyone but myself?
Would you highlight the same parts had you been given this miracle pen?
Things should be taken as whole.
Only in their entirety can you find meaning.
Scribbled thoughts that out do the rest
conquer no ones mind but personal self reasoning.
Would I share what I have highlighted with you,
or would I keep it to myself therefore not highlighting
anything at all but shadowing because I know
what it means to me and you do not?
I won't pass on the book that I have marred
with this pen for it is worthless
now without open interpretation
it is tarred with my presence.
Forget it ever was or came to be.






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