thanks Josh for always listening...

originally posted 10-21-10

poetry.
is.
donny hatahway.
his voice is.
just.
every.
thing.
and…
even if I never knew his story…
I would know his story.

poetry is.
phyllis hyman.
unstoppable.
but stoppable.
even if I never knew her story…
i would know her story.

because:
i know pain intimately
and it never disguises its voice
doesn’t hide beneath chords
or behind riffs.
pain is consistent.
and if it it ain’t broke.
you know the rest.
but i still try to fix it.
with poetry.

and…

poetry is.
yeah it just is.
but…
mired in death.
in life…
in turmoil.
in peace.
in confusion.
in clarity.
in hope.
in giving up.
in beauty.
in ugliness.
in love.
in indifference.
in me.

in doubt.
in belief.
in irrationality.
in reality.
in this fallacy
in this truth
inside.
it just.
is.
every.
thing.

every. thing.
even when my everything is nothing
no. thing.
is transformed into importance
even when my song for you
still leaves me living all alone
when no one loves me in no space
when i feel there is no time
for anyone to hear my song.
but i am just thankful
that i can sing it.
and my refusal to be lonely
is greeted by poems
who agree that they don’t need to live on.
but insist.
that I do.
because poetry just is.
but me,
i.
am.
every. thing.