Creating Paper Tigers

Keeping a journal is kind of like writing poetry.

Although the words may not rhyme sometimes,

they always find a way to chronicle your journey.

Painstakingly, pen and ink make better memories I think.

Even plain black lettering scrawled on blank white pages

can convey colorful imagery, and make rubes seem sages.

Keeping a journal isn't a novel idea.

People have kept them for centuries.

They're windows into the past; peepholes to their souls.

The ordinary mundane lives of authors,

most unworthy of publication,

are perserved for posterity.

Once cathartic scribblings can survive and take wing;

uncaged by curious relatives throughout the ages.