Was it a way for me to prove myself <br />- this manner in which everything was to be revealed <br />covered in layers of stanzas, perhaps <br />but no inner darkness concealed <br /> <br />Is this art how we express ourselves, naked <br />- or a way in which we displayed ourselves, repainted <br />making our grayish features into colors <br />and our contours so much fainter <br /> <br />Was this what we really were <br />- or just something we'd always thought we wanted <br />to put ourselves in mystery [misery] <br />ensuring our poetic ambition granted <br /> <br />for what were we, after all, <br />without our [published] words?<br /><br />Old Teenage Poems<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/published-words/
