poet
what made you a poet
what made you a poet
what made you pause
in the middle of an otherwise ordinary life
and made you stop
to smell the roses
and write it down
what terrible farce
of the frailties of human existence
did you witness
or did you play a forced role
no one could possibly imagine
so you recorded it
for humanity's sake
for your own sake
to assure yourself you were still grounded
and not swept up in the madness all around you
are your words
an unleashed warning
to the innocent
rhetorical questions
in poetry
in poetry
never require question marks
as you know
fellow poet
fellow poet
