Causation

I write under compulsion. That alone
Should warn you that my words may well be feigned.
I do not write as if they were my own,
But rather in a rather modest, pained
Almost apologetic style, since
They come not from the heart, but from the mind
Coerced by circumstances, which convince
Even the most stalwart, unconfined
Of us to write according to their will,
And I am neither. There, do not be
Surprised to find write these words but ill,
Because they have no little grace to me.
Yet still I write them, though not by design
And in that sense they are accounted mine.