Romantic Poet: The First Flicker
Summary
On Bangwing IN this thread celebrates the craft of writing and the idea that the present is the only true reality. It highlights how words can make readers feel, taste silence, and become an artist, and suggests even small pieces might be the first flicker of light in someone s darkness, encouraging community creativity and gratitude.
The present is the only thing that’s truly real.
Everything written every word, every line is a story, a myth, a memory trying to breathe again.
You can’t smell the air in a sentence. You can’t feel the warmth of a moment just by reading it.
And yet, if your words can make someone feel something real
If they can taste the silence, or hear the wind between your lines
Then you are an artist.
And that’s something to be grateful for, not afraid of.
But of course, no one tells you that at the beginning.
If we knew everything from the start,
We might never have picked up the pen at all.
Still, what you write. however small, however unsure
Might be the first flicker of light in someone’s darkness.
Even if, for now, they’re not ready to step out of the arms they’re in.
last two lines stole my heart so fast it ain’t even funny ☹️ 💫
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