How Does One Write The Things One Writes?

How does one write the things one writes From tales to poetry, When spending hours, days and nights, In wonder what will be? Could it be fate that God has set One's awesome destiny? For with great power poets get Responsibility! How does one get the poems penned, Beyond one's part-time schemes, To separate from every friend, Expressing private dreams? To cancel out the public's hold, To sit upon one's own, To gather thoughts as good as gold, Not for oneself alone... How does one edit words that come That dance upon the page, Then choosing these, rejecting some, For well beyond this age? To congregate the gifts allowed, To form what must be made, Or does one pray with head then bowed, So God come to one's aid? I only know from years gone by, A partnership exists, It's there for every time I try, So steadfast it persists... If not for God, I couldn't love This writing as I do... That's why I pray to God above And so, dear friends, should you... Denis Martindale, February 2016.