A Conceit of Running and Writing
When physical and mental endurance battle for your attention
A sport that keeps you on your feet
With the road for company
Logging mile after mile
Covering distances
Following paces
Going places
Aiming for the finish line
Running shoes swapped for a pen
Pavement exchanged for paper
A blank page to write your story
Instead of run it
Let your mind take you places
Create characters to meet
In lieu of fellow athletes
Let their many traits
Replace the run routes
The end goal the same
To reach the final page
A marathon effort
Isn’t running like writing?
Focus and concentration, one word-step at a time
Isn’t writing like running?
Fortitude and patience to complete the distance
Both activities of endurance
Six months of training for a twenty-six mile race
More than a year of writing
For a book that sets the pace
Hoping the world notices the strong athlete you are
Hoping readers appreciate the writer that you are
While hope and expectation may be fulfilled, or not
It is ultimately a sense of self
Training and competing to the best of your abilities
Putting words down on paper the finest way you can
A run charges up the brain
Flooded with ideas of all the wonderful things to write
While writing, the road awaits
For all the wondrous adventures to take you on
Caught between staying still and moving
Both equally joyous
Strength of body and mind
A time for everything
When you love more than one thing
So different, yet so similar
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