How do you know when

You are a writer?

When some school hands

You

A piece of paper

Saying you spent four

Years following orders

And a professors yammers?

When you've written

A poem , story, article

Or two?

Or when you make

That ever seemingly important

Transition from unpublished

To published?

You know,

When your obsessive tendencies

Become oriented to the task.

When your hypochondria

Keeps you awake at night

With thoughts of,

"If I go blind, I won't be able

To use a computer, or edit, or word process,

Am I going blind??"

And

"What will I do if I develop

carpal tunnel syndrome??

And your neurotic answer

Churning inside your head

Is any number of solutions,

Satiating the sole burning

Fire that drives your very being.

That's how you know.