A Non-Poetic World

In a world without poetry, An empty parking lot could not explain the reason for its emptiness The power of the quoted words of emotions would go unobserved and perhaps unnoticed. In a world without poetry, The rescue of a sparrow, a yard bug, and a spider eating an ant would simply be an act of nature, not the story that led to the spider's breakfast In a world without poetry, Word shortages of speech would remain unsaid, and true feelings unexpressed in the light would remain unraveled, unrevealed, and sorely unhealed In a world without poetry, Earth would have remained a cold, dark, and void planet Stoicism would rule, and imagination would be nonexistent Pure romance would be fantasy, ever stripped of intimacy 011920PoSoupCtest, If there was no poetry, Silent One