What is a poem?
A few lines that rhyme?
The ravings of a madman?
Or maybe just whatever comes to mind...
But what separates a poem from a blog?
Or an entry to a diary?
What exactly is considered poetic?
A form of art that is so basic, and yet so daedalean
Words
Something that is a talent handed down to every poet
A natural gift
In fact it's a gift everyone is given
But a gift that needs to be unlocked by choice
Maybe I should toil away until this too becomes my art of choice
Maybe even my raison d'être
And maybe on the journey of existence
Will my inconsiquential questions be revealed before my dying eye
Just in time to figure out
I had doomed the outcome from the beginning
But let me ask one last question before the end befall
If this is not poetry
Yet not a madman's ravings
Then what?