<p>THE WRITER’S DISEASE</p><p><br></p><p>We don’t just remember people.</p><p><br></p><p>We remember how they said goodbye.</p><p>The exact words.</p><p>The pause between them.</p><p>The silence afterwards.</p><p><br></p><p>We remember the smell of rain</p><p>from a Tuesday three years ago.</p><p><br></p><p>We turn heartbreak into metaphors</p><p>and trauma into paragraphs.</p><p><br></p><p>We call it writing.</p><p><br></p><p>Maybe it is.</p><p><br></p><p>Maybe we’re just</p><p>too good at remembering.</p><p><br></p><p>— Baker’s Pen ✍🏾</p><p><br></p><p>Writers, what is one ordinary thing you remember too vividly?</p><p>@pauldelightemah</p>
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