Poet

I’m not rich: I’m a poet.

I’m not famous: I’m a poet.

Haven’t you heard? I can take a word

And find another that sounds just like it

(except for right there maybe),

But baby I’m cool

Don’t fool yourself

And stop drooling at the size of my words

Oh yes! My words are small at the start

But I know the art of benevolent wordplay

And dare say display sizeable lexicality

And I’m a cunning linguist.

Just when you think I’m saying one thing,

I’ll tell you that I won things

At the fair as I whacked the mole

(if you know what I mean)

There. I did it again.

I’m not feared: I’m a poet.

I’m hardly revered: I’m a poet.

But not a know-it-all

with the where-with-all

to build a big life and not blow it.

I build rhythm and rhyme

And might sound quite sublime

But all my wordly possessions

don’t amount to much

Which is fine, for I’m a poet.

I’m a poet. How do I know it?

Well you might see delinquent youth

but I will see the naked truth

Where you hear thunder in the sky

I hear a tortured you and I

Two old people holding hands?

Enthalpic powered wedding bands

I feel the sound of broken hearts

Where beauty lies in two-bit tarts

And see in nature desperate pleas

For us to drop down on our knees and pray.

When you taste sour

I find you sweet

I taste my food and you just eat

And eating away at me is the darkness on this earth

The constant darkness

that no-one seems to give a shit about

and they roll in that shit and come over

and put their shit on me

and stink up my life

and they leave their shit behind when they go.

I’m a poet

because plants are alive

And diving stock markets make no difference to them

Or to the sun or to the stars

or to the way I feel when I see you in deep thought

when I feel I ought to help you

but chose instead to hide and watch because you’re mesmerizing.

I’m a poet

Because love doesn’t die, it just changes,

Because emotions have endless ranges

And the danger of loving is losing

And a poet lives the bruising;

Loves the bruising

I am not unscarred: I’m a poet.

I am on guard: I’m a poet.
Spread the word: I’m a poet.