To write is the ego impulse.

Over years, over the centuries,
people are on the run
to write enough materials
not that there was a dearth of books
or by that they could amass.
To be known envied, awed,
and memorialized, they do so.
They pride themselves on writing.
25.03.2001, Pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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