See your point but we just write, it does annoy us that write lots that many of our pieces seem to end up unread.
As in sport young loved it is not the point of winning that we take part but the fact that we belong and have run the race anyway..
If we wrote perfect pieces we could be cross and not like the amount of comments we have here,
But as perfection is only an aiming point then taking part is all we can do..
Take care young Bard where ever you lay your head, know that my mirrors tells me no lies.. (That's why I smashed the lying shitbags)
Still love you no matter what you do lol.
Yours as always Ian..

PS:- As the sun sinks toward the West then awakes me the next morning having graced many a poets sky, I am disheartened that there the usual sign says to me from Neopoet site:-
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You have no new updates. Keep writing!

It Can be a bit disheartening to post what one thinks is a pretty good poem and then wait days before it get commented on. But if comments is what one craves and Just comments then there are Plenty of sites where one can get a plethora of "great job!', "wonderful poem", "I love it".....ect., ect. But thought the number of comments here is not large the comments usually are helpful and give exact suggestions for improvement.

Now to answer the question within the question : Why do I write? I write to share the things I've seen and done and also in the hopes that in the future some child or grandchild will run across the notebooks I've filled up and use the poems to get an insight into what kind of person "ol' man Holliday" was..............stan