Gratitude: Day 21

Prompt: Passion

I chase the truth in each line I write,  

A lamp held steady in the muddled night.  

My pen sorts chaos into something clear,

A voice through static that we all hear.

I shape the story, trim needless noise,

Find quiet facts beneath louder joys.

I stitch the pieces into something true,

A map the reader didn’t know they knew.

And still, creativity slips in to play;

A dragon’s shadow brightens the day.

A puzzle solved, a rhyme takes flight,

A spark that turns the ordinary bright.

My craft is clarity with heart inside it:

A journalist who must rewrite it.

The world, the moment, all that’s in my sight,

Until it finally feels it's shaped just right.

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Last month, The Gal did a 30-day gratitude challenge. I've swiped it to do for July. Only I'm going to try to do it in rhyme, just because.