The poet I am, and the poet I am not <br /> <br /> <br />‘The poet I am’ says <br />To ‘the poet I am not’, <br />‘Why can’t I be more like you? ’ <br />And ‘the poet I am not’ says <br />‘Because you are not good enough’ <br />And ‘the poet I am’ begins to cry, <br />And ‘the poet I am not’ says <br />‘Real poets cry for more meaningful things’ <br />And ‘the poet I am’ says ‘I am who I am and what I will be means so much to me. But still I am not the poet I wanted to be’. <br />And ‘the poet I am not’ says <br />‘Exactly. Were you less concerned with who you are and more concerned with others you might be a bit more of a poet than you are now.’ <br />And ‘the poet I am’ is silent. <br />And ‘the poet I am not’is somewhere else being someone else <br />That ‘the poet I am and the poet I am not’ cannot see or dream.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poet-i-am-and-the-poet-i-am-not/
