A Poet

A poet awakens to whispers of words teasing
a searching soul, and she acquiesces to their
insistent though quiet calling.

A poet looks to the skies to seek the sentences written there, the thoughts scattered across clouds and dancing with stars.

A poet lays bare her vulnerability and exposes
the questions of the heart.  She allows her pen
to bleed its ink of creativity.

A poet will write of her own perceptions but also
of those gleaned from the words which visit her
and she will paint images in the colors of the moment.

A poet will understand that the reader of her words will interpret as they will for they know not her thoughts, but only their own.

A poet will express, will imagine, will believe
in that which she writes...
because she must.
A poet has no other choice.