Best Entry in Poetry

I Write
a/k/a Poetic Purpose
David Peavy Jr. '05
Dedicated to the art form of the written word

I write to live
I write to breathe
I write to maintain
I write my so-called sanity

I write when you won't
I write if you can't
I write our song
I write when they wrong

I write to preserve
I write to uplift
I write to exacerbate, pontificate,
and emasculate
I write to tempt fate

I write to extend
I write to befriend
I write to diminish
I write to the finish
I write to spite
I write to the smitten
I write to enrage
I write the unforgiven

I write to expose
I write the endless lie
I write to exalt
I write the Most High

I write the Black
I write the Brown
I write in living color
I write on Native ground

I write Malcolm's mind
I write Teresa's heart
I write Mumia's freedom
I write Diego's art
I write forbidden fantasy
I write passionate sweat
I write unreal ecstasy
I write to get ‘em wet

I write our beauty
I write our sincerity
I write our truth
I write to our posterity.