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# Why I Write
- URL: https://www.tom-shaw.uk/why-i-write/
- Published: 2024-03-03T09:03:18.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-03T09:03:18.000Z
- Description: A Poem by Tom Shaw
- Author: Tom Shaw
- Tags: Poems, #substack, #substack-type-newsletter, #substack-access-everyone, #Import 2026-10-24 12:50

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIn the deepest depths of the night,  
in the farthest reaches that remain  
untouched by rays of warm daylight,  
there is a rhyme lost in the ether.  
  
In the blackness of my woes,  
wrought in my own dissonant thoughts,  
tossing in its relentless echoes,  
I hear that rhyme calling for help.  
  
So I go there, tracking that tone.  
In doing so, I make it my mission  
to share with it a blanket of my own,  
keeping the rhyme from frostbite.  
  
We find ourselves in space together,  
I am shown how to wield my chatter.  
And so it may live in sight forever,  
in return I offer the rhyme my voice.

###### Why I Write - by Tom Shaw

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This poem is a little piece about what poetry means to me, which I wrote in celebration of reaching over 100 subscribers on Substack. In the time between making this post available for my Paid subscribers and in it becoming public, I passed 150 subscribers. Shortly after, I reached 200 subscribers, and recorded an audio version about the poem in celebration of these milestones.

I spoke a little bit more about why I write in a recent interview with [Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​](https://open.substack.com/users/80297209) , which you can find a clip of below.

You can find the full interview with Dr Lawrie over on her Substack below.

[A Thoughtful Young Man's Perspective on COVID, the WHO and the FutureDuring the COVID crisis, Tom Shaw, a dental student from Sheffield watched helplessly as family, friends and colleagues, taken in by the WHO’s lies, lined up for the experimental COVID jabs. The youth were and still are a particular target of the COVID media campaigns, which we now know used military grade behavioural psychology (PSYOPS) to manipulate men, women, and our young people into believing COVID was deadly, the ‘vaccines’ were “![](https://cdn.mymidnight.blog/a14ac55a4f27472c5d894ec1c3c743d2/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/c2e9d443-bb05-447f-8e06-e2f1bd8e7fd0_940x940.png)A Better Way with Dr Tess Lawrie](https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/a-thoughtful-young-mans-perspective)

You can use the image version of this poem below to easily share this piece with someone who may benefit from it:

![](https://cdn.mymidnight.blog/a14ac55a4f27472c5d894ec1c3c743d2/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/ad85baa1-3a95-464b-a83a-65db3162ef43_1725x1725.png)

I write for myself first and foremost, and I feel honoured to find out that the fruits of my process of sensemaking helps others to do the same. I cannot thank you enough for all the support you have shown me, and I look forward to continue bringing you more.

With immense gratitude,

Tom

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