Day 3 Prompt: Write a poem in which a profession or vocation is described differently than it typically is.

 

femme de lettres

Try as she might,
her search for truth required proof.
But she fought the good fight
to tell the world her story as truth.

The byline, the fame and
popular wealth was
the name of the game,
but she stood for a better cause.

Her life, not only to write.
But to make the world a better place.
She obsessed both day and night
to better all souls in the humanity race.

Then one day she just walked away,
but she never shed what was in her head.
To keep still and quiet and see that world
through the eyes of a journalist turned poet.

Look both ways and look closely.
Mind the gaps for a story behind the story of relative truth.