Writers Poem by Dhananjaya Premawardena

What are writers?
Writers are not winners of war
Writers have few scientific achievements
I bet very few writers are found in ancient lore

So writer puts pen to paper
And writes somethings that ought to be right
Then his significance would be made
Then wouldn't he be in the light?

The situation is much worse, I'm afraid
The world is not based on melancholy poems
And dizzying metaphors
You might as well write about Xylems and phloems.

The world is made of real people
With real situations
It does not call for loud words spoken on TV
or soft ones written on blogs

However, when writer steps out of his pages
To do something that he writes about
Then I would say 'That's what writing is all about'
That's something I would shout

So when writers write
And poets poet?
For God's sake, don't write it
DO IT!