On Writing Well

Writing well is it’s own reward

and reading may well be that too.

The writer may have no regard

for readers he is writing to.

But, whether he knows it or not

the writer ought to be aware

that readers cannot be forgot,

being careful to take more care.

In a diary or a journal

sources may be more internal

but the final readers may be

in a hopeful posterity.

Perhaps it will never be read;

a future most likely ahead.

Walt Abbott–11-24-2009