A Calling

Blinking and breathing, is your soul alive? 
I bleed poetry cutting deep with my pen;
Poets do what we can to survive; 

Where we’re going, where we’ve been 
a tower with an endless beam of light; 
Scars cover the poet drenched in caffeine ;

Blood splattering every letter we write 
open a vein, faint, and keep on crawling;  
Candlelit verses bombard you all night; 

Is it your job or is it a calling? 
Would you bleed if no one was watching?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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Hankins Avatar
December 13, 2021 at 7:06 PM
A fine poem, Melani, well-written and very meaningful to all poets. I love your questions in the last two lines. Excellent.
Udaeta Avatar
December 13, 2021 at 7:47 PM
Thank you so much.
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