Beautiful Enough To Frame

Is It Wrong?

I love the messages

That my readers like to send

It makes me happy knowing that my work

Has brought feelings into your heart

I wish I could show the world

Alas, that is not yet possible, and honestly

I fear it will never happen

When you look at writers such as

Sylvia Plath or Edgar Allan Poe

Their works were not read

Until they were beyond us

Is it selfish to strive for more?

Is it wrong to want to be alive?

To want to see the faces and reactions

Of those who have been moved?

I do not want to be a martyr

I do not want to be remembered

I want to be acknowledged

I want to die knowing

I meant something to someone