All of the words I want to say <br />Some other poet has said <br />In such a stupendously marvelous way <br />That they just cry out to be read. <br />So many beautiful poems <br />Express what I want to express; <br />For me to say it again <br />Would be mere presumptuousness. <br />My words would be a regression <br />In the light of their thorough address, <br />Yet my thoughts cry out for expression; <br />I'll just have to say them I guess <br />And hope that beside the great masters <br />My efforts will not be in vain, <br />And somewhere in the ages hereafter <br />Someone will read them again <br />And see the need though my prism <br />And somehow recognize why <br />Those words were torn from the bosom <br />Of one so unworthy as I.<br /><br />Adeline Foster<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/who-am-i-166/
