CATARSIS OF A POET
Why did God make me a poet?
For what!
If the evils of this world, I cannot extinguish them with my marionette pen.
What did poetic art give me,
if with him I can't get the black mist away from my city,
Why did God make me a poet!
I think, why?
Why did God make me a poet!
If I can't satiate my verses
world hunger,
nor my neighbor
I can offer you a daily plate of fruitful food.
And before you, friends, brothers, I renew my sad lament:
Why did God make me a poet!
For what!
Why did I become a poet?
If I can't put out the fires of wars
and my voice is only paper burned in the heart of the aggressor.
Why did I become a poet!
If the levers of social injustice
I cannot alter them, nor change them, forwards or backwards.
And as much as I row and row
with inspiration in my loft;
my yellow, silent, stiff poems will stay.
For what, I'm a poet,
yes to my beloved,
I could not move with my verses,
and left me, orphaned with love.
If your heart became stone,
Will a metaphor or a rhyme make you come back?
I don't know, my God, I don't know!
Why did I become a poet, if I see my planet bleed to death,
and I with my flimsy verses, I can't hold it.
I keep writing
and the contamination continues to spread.
If I see my brother starving,
my rhymes will not feed him,
No, they will not quench your thirst!
Why did you make me a poet, my God?
For what!
If when sorrows like rivers assail me,
there are no verses that can console my evening.
Why so much sleepless attic?
What wasted so much youth for?
Both square of rhymes and figures,
So much anxiety in my life;
Why so much orphan pocket!
I'm seriously thinking about it,
OMG;
I will keep my feathers,
I'll tie them to a tree, in case they want to escape.
Tomorrow, another person I will be,
I believe
I will move to another trade.
I hear a voice whispering to me at midnight in my bed:
"You became a poet to announce the good, not to feel good"
I untie my feathers and verses from the tree,
their perfumes are still fresh,
I ask heaven for inspiration
and I start writing;
the night is long...
Author Edith Elvira Colqui Rojas-Perú-Rights reserved
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* I made this poem thinking of thousands of poets who think that their profession is futile, not necessarily some concepts agree with mine. It is catharsis literature of liberation from the sorrows of a poet who can be you or me or perhaps another.