A woman sat down near me in the train.
She had a baby.
It spat at me,
Pinched me,
Pulled my hair;
And the mother apologized for it all.
I said it was okay
And kept looking at the little devil
Trying to throw away the cloth that wrapped it;
Trying to be free.
It pointed a finger at me
And said many things
Even the mother didn’t seem to understand.
Ha.
And I call myself a poet.
This is true poetry;
Coming from the best poet I'd ever listened to.
Yes, the baby was a true poet:
Only it knows what it truly means
By anything.
Only it knows what it says when it points a finger
At me.
Yet I feel something,
Yet I feel like it likes me,
Like it enjoys my company,
Like it wants to tell me
Something small
In a smaller way,
Like it wants to tell me something
It has learned so far.
My soul understands that something
Even though I can’t say it.
That's what a poet really should do.
I write crap
And I still call myself a poet.
But this is true poetry.
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