I don't write poetry <br />...it writes me <br /> <br />dips into <br />my life <br /> <br />(every now and then) <br /> <br />and in a scribbled scrawl <br />or beautiful caligraphy <br /> <br />writes what I am <br />all about <br /> <br />the mystery <br />of my blood <br /> <br />when I am in love <br /> <br />the mystery of how <br />your voice transforms me <br /> <br />from just a man <br />to a man who loves and is loved. <br /> <br />The mystery <br />of the mystery <br /> <br />of what I will be <br /> <br />what I will amount to. <br /> <br />I don't write poetry <br />...it writes me. <br /> <br />I don't write poetry <br />...it happens. <br /> <br />And so, if it so <br />chooses <br /> <br />to write with me <br /> <br />I want my poetry <br />to say <br /> <br />I was more me <br />than I could ever be <br /> <br />because of you <br /> <br />became my self <br />through loving you. <br /> <br />Love, like poetry <br />is a happening <br /> <br />it becomes one <br /> <br />rather than... <br /> <br />and so we become <br />the poetry that is us <br /> <br />calling this strange writing <br />into being <br /> <br />the writing <br />we call <br /> <br />love.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-don-t-write-poetry/