It always shocks me that people love My poetry. When you are enveloped in flaws And develop through, Get this, Critical thinking, You find yourself a self same mess Just getting older and clinging to The chemical bliss your brain elicits When someone says yes, This poem is something I loved. It's an addiction, honey, but it's worthless, For the second it arrives my consciousness Comes in with three different thoughts, First the emotional and egotistical I'm the best why isn't there more love, and then the collusion rational, My personal poetry is meaningless to Others except by a voyeuristic view, There is no intrinsic value, Finally, always, the doubt and internal Degradation. This poetry is really Nothing at all. Just failures like Adam grasping for straws reaching for God But I aspire to nothing really, And I don't care much about anyone or Anything anyways I just want to be special. And it's easy. And the talent does sometime flow nicely. But it gives me nothing. No bread on my table. At what point does therapy and sharing Just excercise my own limitless desire For pleasure and devotion. So many counter opinions so many theories But every time my mind acts the same I'm just a disgusting human with a Dastardly perspective and I enforce it on You in lines and rhymes to be God in your Mind if only for a little while. And I always think, For those this bothers most, How shocking it is that people Love my poetry.