26 letters are all it took

A few words

A couple of sentences

Voila! You have a book.

26 letters make up the alphabet

Soft and hard sounds

Vowels and syllables

Silent letters are a mystery yet

26 letters and a language is spoken

Emotions are traded

Hate and love emoted

Hearts are broken

26 letters communicate your thoughts

Typed on a screen or texted by phone

Contact is minimal

The true meaning is never caught

26 letters from A to Z

Thousands of words

Some rarely used

All found in the dictionary

26 letters do poems make

Stories long and short

Love letters are written

Expressing feelings real and fake

26 letters often escape my mind

I search in vain for inspiration

ABCDEFG… is what I need

$@*>?#&)%<”=… is what I find

26 letters created to torment me

Leave me broken and humbled

An empty vessel

But… a writer is never set free.