some will seek medicine

Some will seek medicine,

and some, to keep on going

will go to sleep.

I'll keep writing poems.

I'll stay up until there is a listener,

I'll wait for light until it comes.

And when dawn comes, a whisper,

I'll keep writing poems.

When my hands shake and my lungs ache,

when you're still

still gone and far away,

I'll keep writing poems.