Rhymes Unread
I've
tried to write this poem two or three times now It doesn't seem to get any less hard I'm not as great of a poet as you might think I'm not a great wordsmith like many a bard The truth is I just write how I feel Letting my emotions mingle with ink Sometimes the poems are masterpieces And sometimes they stink And many times I crumple them up And toss them on the floor And wonder why I bother writing If my ability is so poor But with each flawed page I crumple And toss away in a ball There's another feeling left untold Another unexplained tear left to fall And so I'd come to the conclusion That I'll continue to write what I feel Because it's in this way That I can express and heal and feelins are a precious thing Though over-plentiful they seem to me They are the things that make me human Though painfull they often seem to be But what's more painfull is the fact That I fear to share these lines with you And they speak only to the page upon which they live Never anyone but myself to view Or into the fire they consume themselves As the passion consumes myself within For it's my unexpressed feelings that burn And that no one has read them, that is the sin ~Joseph M. Barat ©
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