Why I Am A Poet
Poetry, the thing
That makes words
Do things
They were not designed to do.
Why do I?
Because I know
Thought is not
Adequately expressed
By words alone.
In person
A person
Uses facial expression
Body language
And that might be enough
But sometimes not
Sometimes
As Pinsky says
Meaning is
"... not in the words, not even
Between the words, but a torsion,
A cleavage, a stirring."
Exactly.
In the space between words
A thing
Happens
You can't even tell what it is
Not with science
Or sense
Or anything
That is why I am a poet
Because meaning
The thing
That defines life
Cannot be found
In the words
Or even
Between the words
But only
In
Poetry.
