Sometimes I write poetry
most times it writes me.
Showing me things
I need to see.
Things I need to acknowledge
to be a better man.
Not to change the world,
but to change what I can.
Most often times
it's a change in me,
A reflection of a man
I don't want to see.
Sometimes I write poetry,
most times it writes me.
And the more that I write
the more I'll like what I see.
And maybe someday
if I write well enough,
The man in the mirror
will smile back at me.