Don't be jealous what others have written <br />In their own frame and time of season <br />They are there in the place they've awoken <br />To write down words gleaned from their reason <br />Lived out each day, their truth gets spoken. <br /> <br />You are not them; you are not there <br />We're all just panes in a stained glass way: <br />The things they've seen you might not bear <br />Could they endure the bed you lay? <br />No one but you sings your soul's song, <br /> <br />Walks the same path your foot falls on- <br />Don't silence the poet inside of you <br />Trying to fill some other's space <br />Cause then nobody will hear your songs <br />And the world would miss your grace.<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-t-be-jealous/
