Metaphors

poets write with metaphors to protect their feelings letting others read into it--pulling their own meaning sometimes it hits close, no matter how vague we pen obtuseness only goes so far when you see yourself in it we write of unread books and things left out in the rain of dances left unfinished and songs that we once sang we write about opening windows and about closing doors of dense, white fog and shadows, shrouds and birds that soar we write of finding happiness, of thunder and skies of blue of footprints in sand, the ocean tides and of the crescent moon a metaphor does many things, it's left to interpretation every singular moment, every singular situation we pen these poems as lyrics or tag them spiritual hoping others read them and pull from them what they will