To the Self Doubting Poet
With confidence I tell you - Get your own.
Imperfections you fear will be exposed
are what qualify you as you alone,
and you alone are owed for this composed:
Consider all you are and have to share -
A mother, you might be, soft spoken, sweet,
soothing your daughter in a rocking chair,
her tiny heart and yours in synchronized beat;
and now consider why your daughter dreams
and why her tiny lungs with life are full;
and then consider how perfection seems
a bit like poetry - It’s beautiful.
Consider her, when you deliberate,
if you should doubt what comes when you create.
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