I know you won't believe me but... oh way back when <br />There was a time before computers, paper, and pen. <br />There were still writers who wrote with sticks in sand, <br />mud on rock, perhaps even blood on their body and hand. <br />And the reason they tried to write their thoughts and ideas down <br />Wasn't because they wanted to have them shared or passed around. <br />But because they realized as the years were passing them by <br />that their memory capacity was dwindling down... that's why.<br /><br />Elena Plotkin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/writers-of-yore/
