If I Stop Writing Forever Poem by Shalom Freedman

If I stop writing forever
I will probably not die immediately
I will probably enter a despair
I will never leave
I will feel useless hopeless meaningless lost
This is not because I receive recognition for what I write
Or because I am good at writing
It is because
Writing has been the way I have given meaning to life
And even now as I write this coming from a morning of despair
I know it is the writing itself
That saves me.