Publication Paradox

To write a word or a sentence
Requires understanding of its meaning

To share, publish, or distribute that writing
Requires a conviction — a hope, or desire —
That the reader might grasp that meaning
In alignment with writer's own

Whether sharing a comment, a poem, or a book
The acts are structurally identical
Regardless of the content within them

But if the content maintains
That the writer shares without belief
Without even the hope that the reader understands

If it claims the writer does not
Intend the world to be altered by those words —
That they are not, essentially and structurally
Acting as an evangelist
Proselytising a point of view —

Then knowingly or unknowingly —
The writer has authored a paradox
That rings discordant and dissonant
In the minds of both reader and writer

Short of becoming a missionary
The only resolution —
Once the writer recognises this paradox —
Is to disown the work as his own
Letting the text to stand independent of the hand

Or to disown the self as the author
Granting the words an existence
Separate from the writer

In either case
What was once a paradox
Is sanctified as scripture