The Purple Pen

It felt awkward in my hand
like what I wrote
had to be right the first time.

Doesn’t everything have to be right
the first time?

Scribbling with the pen is messy
I can’t fix what I get wrong
A drop from my tea cup
smears the ink a bit

It’s messy

What if I think of a better way to say it?
I can’t delete it once it’s there
How do I fix it
without being messy?

My head goes
faster than
my hand can write
I can’t
keep up

It's getting messy

What if I
miss words
or lose them
to another
random thought

It’s messy

Words are now
tumbling too fast
Fingers with
the pen
can’t keep up

It's messy

My fingers get a little tired
from the pen
There’s a ridge on my finger
It looks messy
from leaking purple ink

Writing becomes
illegible scribble
I’m getting
lost in this stuff
that’s tumbling out

It’s getting really messy

Ink shows thru from the other side of the page
Makes it hard to read
through that mess
This doesn’t happen with keys

It’s just too messy

Mistakes can disappear
with the press of a key
With a pen, they keep haunting, remembering, waiting, reminding

But…what if I need back a thought that fell
victim to the delete key

It’s gone forever

 And that would have been really messy

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