First off all, I am not a writer,

I am a translator of thoughts I absorb from the life forces around me.

Words are merely my vehicle for messages to travel

from the womb of my thoughts to the birth of sound.

I am a sculptor, a painter, with pain and pleasure

shaping images where understanding caters to our deepest thoughts,

barred lands and waterfalls,

out of sight-out of mind, out of self-out of body

I’m content channeling rhymes, around what life embodies.

Let words be the wisdom, truth be the master, knowledge the growth, and love the rapture.

Amy Houck