Why Should I Write?

I am not really sure sometimes way I should write. Because the ancestors beckon me? I might get a mainstream publisher? It's the cheapest thing I can do? It makes me un-afraid? Because I am scarred, scared, sacred? I promised to tell his, her, their, my story? So I don't forget? So I can remember?

I am not often sure why I should write. And I do not understand the power of my mind, the way thoughts slip into the point of my pen and spill out onto the once blank page inking my life print forever.

But while I am trying to figure out why I should write, my story keeps pressing its way out of me.