Writing is powerful. It gives you a silent voice and an endless myriad of ways to depict a single thought. It can express a universal emotion in just one deep, meaningful word. Or it can span pages and pages with individual verses — each successive one leaving more room for speculation than the last.
Through writing, you can direct. You can choose what thoughts to pull from every one of your readers. You can control the emotions they feel; you can force them to think about that thing. The one they've been avoiding for quite some time now. You can bring about forgiveness in even the coldest of people. You can bring rest to the most sleepless of individuals. You can think for them. You can speak for them. You can heal. You can teach. You can be yourself or you could be absolutely no one at all.
While those who know you may unintentionally hear your voice through your lyrics, those who don't can create one for you. One that they will enjoy listening to. One that they will come to in the darkest of times. One that they will become familiarized with and can eventually pinpoint throughout mountains of different writing styles.
Through writing, you’re influencing the spur of reading. You’re allowing culture to swim through the oceans of papers — like paper cups connected by thousands of miles of string. You’re inducing the byproduct of continual oral tradition. You’re introducing room for millions of reactions. You’re allowing those around you to pick up their wands and turn to color everything that those before them viewed in shade.
One misinterpretation is all it takes for a revolutionary thought. A single word changed from the manuscript already induces a different response. It shares a different message. The point of writing isn't to induce what makes you happy within your readers. It's to allow them to think in unique, personal ways that no one can dare argue against them.
So pick up your pen. Bring your fingertips towards the abandoned keys of your computer, blue from being used in all of the wrong ways. Close your eyes. Let the words rush through any selected medium. Just write. Your voice matters more than you know, especially to those you don't know at all.
