Potential

Potential Bring us words — witty, wise or wistful   
written with all of their potential.

Make sense of life’s distorted mirror,  
unlock our deepest emotional stirrings.  
Write with all of your potential.
Share your words wrapped in plastic, paper or silk.  

Extract understanding, pain, happiness.  
Touch the deepest pit, the wildest joy.  
Help us distil each drop of emotion
bitter, sweet, or salty on the tongue 
and project films, romance to noir,  
from the midst of your potential.

Trumpet music and songs with your words
fanfares of feeling,  from decaffeinated fairy lights
to surging seas.  
Mix words with the music of your soul.  
Find metaphors from the wellspring of experience: 
from broken shoes to purring Ferraris,  
anything that elicits a thickened throat,  
a glimmering smile, the sigh that escapes
after reading your potential.

Paint as Picasso,Turner, Bacon.  
Sketch your words those written from    
the wellspring      of your potential.

And somewhere just beyond the page,  
the Watcher leans closer,  
listening for the moment  
your words ignite.