Come Clean

Come clean even the wisest of us at least once has made wish to a star even the most skeptical has called to a god when feeling lost hopelessly adrift from a path of truth having strayed too far even those surest of love have felt a twitch of jealousy doubted in one's own gleams, too well knowing the attraction of younger and seemingly far brighter beams even an acclaimed writer has read other's marvelous verse thinking better works inconceivable no finer declarations achievable and wondered if poetry always a soaring soulful gift or as much a spirit sinking curse