'Writing since a wee lad'

‘Writing since a wee lad’        timothy r gates, 6/04/2015

Writing since a wee lad,

Something no one kept from you

Speaking didn’t come easily

(I know, no one seems to believe this.)

Sound, visuals, colour – these

allowed for vision, and revision,

opening doors for  a boy to become a man

(or, adult. Well, more than just a boy. Boy was fine.)

Scrap pads, legal pads, pencils and pens

gave way to typewriters, word processors

to pads and phones.

Every once In a while I go back to the

note pads, legal pads, pocket notebooks, with pens and pencils – these

allow me to move past interpretive memory, and I

Write.