The Poet's Curse
"If you cannot be the poet, be the poem"
as if anybody ever had a choice
as if the poets have not been cursed
to be the shadows that soak up the light
darling poems, don't you see?
you are everything the poets wish to be
they have been given eyes that see all beauty
so they can store it in their words
and those without their poet's eyes
can see the colors behind the world's veil
but the curse of the poet is that those very eyes
cannot be turned upon themselves
and so the price of a poet's art
is a poet's perpetually breaking heart
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Free Bird
PoetryThis book is a journey: my journey, to learn my flight. I write this as someone who is searching for freedom, and who is looking to find it in whatever journey full of discoveries these poems take me on. I know I have always had wings. Now, it is...
