NOT EVERY POEM KNOWS ITS OWN NAME <br /> <br />Not every poem knows its own name <br />Or can have itself be written easily- <br />Not every poem lives in the light <br />There are dark poems also. <br /> <br />We, possessed of poetry <br />Often do not know where we are. <br /> <br />We would like to believe <br />That the light of our soul <br />And the light of our words <br />Are one- <br /> <br />But we know deep down <br />There is one poem somewhere <br />And another poem somewhere else <br />And whoever we truly are <br />Cannot be wholly found in either. <br /> <br />No poem is us completely <br />And we are not complete Poetry either.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/not-every-poem-knows-its-own-name/
