The Price of a Poem
what’s the price of a poem
in cash, blood, sweat and tears
what experience suffered
how many months and years
what’s it worth to you
and will you be touched, pleased
will it explain, elucidate
will all your fears be eased
and did you see it coming
and appreciate it’s being
I think I wrote it for you
you are seeing what you’re seeing
if everything I ever
wrote, thought, memorised
came flooding back to haunt
I would be traumatised
and the pain that brings
the poem, screaming
tricks me into thinking
I was only ever dreaming
so, what’s the price of a poem
a collection of words skewed
up, down, all over the place
studied, read, discarded, viewed
it’s not the sentiment you leave
when you close the book
that moment came, happened, went
and you had to look
poems? ten a penny
a sad f*cker scribbling
giving his best, his darkest
and left dribbling
psst, want to buy a poem?
it’s price is negotiable
it won’t change your world
and is not guaranteed reliable.
18.1.2020 11:13am
Copyright © Neil Johns | Year Posted 2021
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