the bitterness is debilitating
and normally i'd fix that
with my writing but it's
writing that is making me
more bitter about it all
it isn't easy being a fraud
desperate for a place
longing for a practice
a hobby or whatever else
i look upon approving audience
when i dream, when i dream
i am accepted as a poet
separate from paralyzing falsities
but when i write i'm just a number
a broad categorization of where
my "art" is aimed
i sound like so many others that
sound so much like myself
will i ever transcend my
limitations? will there ever be
depth to what i have to share?
i don't change lives i just change minds
when i write i'm just a number
Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 3:04 PM UTC
the bitterness is debilitating
and normally i'd fix that
with my writing but it's
writing that is making me
more bitter about it all
it isn't easy being a fraud
desperate for a place
longing for a practice
a hobby or whatever else
i look upon approving audience
when i dream, when i dream
i am accepted as a poet
separate from paralyzing falsities
but when i write i'm just a number
a broad categorization of where
my "art" is aimed
i sound like so many others that
sound so much like myself
will i ever transcend my
limitations? will there ever be
depth to what i have to share?
i don't change lives i just change minds
when i write i'm just a number
someone's losing faith in himself
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