To be a Poet

To be loved by a poet is to live forever

Therefore, to be a poet is to be a god

To be a poet is to carve cathedrals out of words

To worship the language that builds your life

To kneel before humanity and beg for

Forgiveness

Truth

Beauty

Solace

To pray to whatever god you believe in

to give you more time to experience this world

Filled with poetry

Filled with muses

To find a poem in every passing moment

Every tree of which you press your hand into its bark

In every wave

Every ripple

Every stranger you see on the street

In your friend's laughter

In the stars

All of life becomes your muse

To be a poet is to be a god

Experiencing the world as you made it

And walking among your creations

With awe and with pain

That you only get this one short life

To write the world you created

To be a poet is to bleed

To stick yourself on the thorns of a flower

And call the red beauty

And call it poetry

To be a poet is to open your mind

And unleash even your most personal thoughts

To be a poet is to sacrifice yourself

Upon an altar of metaphor

To be the sacrificial lamb

To be the priest

To be each stone

That builds the walls of your church

To be a poet is to inhabit everything in this universe

To be a poet is to be a god experiencing mortality