Paradox
What place is new when it’s every place you’ve been?
Who do you talk to when you can’t find a friend?
What can you do when it’s everything you’ve done?
How can you laugh without any fun?
What can you sing without any song?
What can you fix when nothing is wrong?
What is courage without fear?
Who can cry and not shed a tear?
Who can feel love when it’s not shared?
Who acknowledges achievement if no one cared?
What can you find when nothing is lost?
What is value without any cost?
What can be borrowed that no one will lend?
What is a beginning without any end?
By Jess w. Ward
When you talk to yourself, is your voice too loud
Can you be alone while standing in a crowd?
When you talk to yourself, is your voice too loud?
Can you look in wonder at a night sky full of stars?
And see the hopeless futility of our endless wars.
When you’re accused with only deceit, lies, and treachery?
Can you maintain your moral integrity?
Can you see infinity in a hand full of sand?
Have you ever wondered why God created man?
Have you ever wondered within yourself?
Why man-kinds greatest enemy is himself?
If you have, sit and talk with me.
If you haven’t then just leave me be.
By Jess W. Ward
the Siskiyou Writers’ Club. They generally meet the last Thursday of the month at various locations in the county. Members are encouraged to write a story, approximately 1,000 words or less, for each meeting. We read the stories and vote by secret ballot for the favorite, which then historically has been sent to the SDN and its south county papers for publication under the heading “Writers Block.”
The Siskiyou Writers’ Club is a local group of folks with a passion for creative writing of all genres. For more information about the club, contact Mike Grifantini, 530-710-4882, email [email protected], or Bob Kaster, 530-598-5204, email [email protected].
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