What drives you to put pen to paper? <br />Is it a desire to be famous? <br />Do you want to change the world? <br />Have you got a story to tell? <br /> <br />Or is it more personal? <br />Do you feel you have drawn the short straw? <br />That life is so unfair <br />To make you have to live this way.... <br /> <br />Are you suicidal? <br />Prone to dispair <br />Caught in a landslide <br />And you cant escape the ride... <br /> <br />Then thats why your a poet <br />So you can analyse <br />Put down in words what you feel <br />Some choose a paintbrush <br />You choose a pen. <br /> <br />Why does a poet write <br />Because they can..... <br /> <br /> <br />Written January 2007<br /><br />Alison Smith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-does-a-poet-write/
