The Need for Approval

 

The need for approval's so ingrained

It stops many writers from going

Outside of the bounds of convention

Outside of from what they want showing

 

Damn! Can't we break this obsession

And be our true selves on the site

Just write what we feel, what we want to

Whether others might think it wrong, right?

 

You can sense my anger grow as I'm writing

Put up your ideas on our screens

Don't be tied down by convention

New ideas don't emerge unless seen

 

But hey? Don whatever will they think?

When I write about sex beyond grave?

An interesting topic for discussion?

Come on WOLers branch out, and be brave

 

Of course there are such things as guidelines

Which help retain order, keep us kind

But WOL also allows flexibility

To stretch to the limit, our minds

 

Don Matthews January 2019