I'm so dangerously close to finishing my poem... I carry this damn notebook around with me everywhere and I scribble away until my fingertips burn. I love this feeling. If I didn't love politics so damned much, this would have been my profession. Maybe. I just love creating. It's fun to think that there is a vast bounty of words for me to mold and assemble into infinite possibilities. The fabrication of letters... what a delicious, perfect creature. The very thing that can bring a nation to its knees is the very same machine that can spell out the triumphs of love. It's a many splendored thing, I tell you.

Anyway...

I'm going to try protecting my works further under my deviantART name and my real name. I feel that if I don't protect my works under my real name and I publish them in something (book, magazine, etc.) then I might be sued by deviantART even though it is all my handiwork. I don't want to go through that grief. It says under my deviation that it's copyrighted under ~silentlydrowning, but is this name and all of its entries owned by deviantART? This is why I'm so reluctant to share some of these poems and stories... I don't want to get sued for reprinting what is already mine. Those are my thoughts, my heart, my being, my beloved words.

I can't stand drama. So the thought of this makes me ill. I hope that my worries are just that and not the case.

I'll see what I can work out.

Besides that, I want to give a very special thank you to my muse . He is a tremendous beauty and seems to be so much more behind those captivating looks. He's given me so much inspiration in the past few days for one of my characters, which this poem is about. Never really talked beyond the polite "thank you's," but I can tell that he is definitely a gentle soul.

Expect the newest poem by this weekend!

-J

P.S. This journal skin is by `kjherstin! It's really lovely! I just don't know how to do all those codes. I'm stupid and it's confusing. I tried! ^^