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[callmehero]

I am a poet
when the tingle in my fingertips
becomes the itch to hold a pen,
and I can wait no longer.

I am a poet
when I prod the squares into their slots,
and fire shoots from my pen,
and the ink consumes the page.

I am a poem
when ink moves backwards,
under my fingernails,
into my very blood.

I am a poem
when I watch my fingers fingering a pen,
and I know not from where the power comes
to make them move.

I am a poem
when I am an empty shell.
No longer content to appease my Muse,
I become the Isaac instead.

I am a poet
when He opens up my eyes,
lifts my head.
makes me sing.