How do you know if you're still a poet
When all your words have simply gone silent?

Do you have to go back and remember
The times you lit fires from embers?

Do you have to write and sing
Only hoping the music will ring?

Do you have to find the stars at midnight
Just to wish for the hope of a sunrise?

Do you have to dance to silent music
To inspire all the words that are quiet?

What do you have to do
To prove the poet's still inside you?

Maybe just write a curious poem
About a soul that has lost its rhythm