So You Want To Be Poet? 😩😏😏

So You Want To Be A Poet?

This poem really knocks my heart out to love #poetry.❤😡

 So You Want To Be A Poet?

You want to make beauty out of ugly words

Want to make people feel something,

You want the grandeur and the glamour,

The clapping audience after your appearance on stage?

II.

Well, kid, here's the thing.

A poet is not something you can just "be."

It is an illness passed down at birth 

It is the doctor handing you to your mother and saying 

"I'm so sorry, she was born with poetry in her veins."

III.

It is your father begging for forgiveness

The first time he finds you

Scribbling metaphors on your bedroom wall just like him

It is your first bicycle accident,

and the apologetic look

On your neighbors face when she 

sees the ink pouring out of your wounds.

IV.

It is drinking too much,

not sleeping enough,

loving too deeply,

yet never loving at all.

It is walking up to every stranger you meet and saying

"Here is my heart, would you like the break it?"

So you want to be a poet?

GOOD LUCK.