What About You?

What brings your fingers to the keys,
bares your soul so the world sees?


What burns in your mind
until the words you find
to set the thoughts free
like the wind in a tree?


Is it a love still burning,
that leaves your mind churning?


Is it gross injustice in the world political
showing "leaders" to be hypocritical?


Is it a memory of time past
charted poetically to make it last?


Is it pent-up indignation
for a cause given no consideration?


Is it the desire to re-live and to share
heated romantic intimacies, to dare?


Is it a longing for sharing,
to know someone is reading and caring?


Is it the empowerment of text,
the written word, wondering what's next?


Is it the release and relief
from hidden thoughts, a belief?


Is it the desire to tell a tale,
a tiny moment, or one as big as a whale?


What about you?


Do you care to reply
and to share what pushes your buttons,
the motivation on which you rely?