What Would I Write About?

What Would I Write About

What would I write about,
If I had some free time?
Would I bother to try,
Or even bother to rhyme?

Would I write about people,
Gone down in history?
Or would I write just like Sherlock,
A priceless mystery?

Would I try to be funny?
And make people smile?
Or make them fall on the floor,
Laughing like a child?

Or would I try to be brilliant,
Like o’l Dr. Seuss?
And make children laugh,
At the funny words I use?

Would I try to be old fashioned,
Using where-ith, who-ith, and thou?
Or come back to the present,
And use the words we use now?

Would I try to write,
About a particular race?
I doubt it, cuz to me,
The only difference is the face.

Would I write about the diseases,
We try to look through?
Not knowing that what affects the hurt
Affects you.

Or about the selfishness
That I see in this world?
Some are too greedy to give,
To a hungry boy or hungry girl.

Or would I write about crime
And how it’s useless?
When you take a mothers only son,
For your benefit.

And would anything I wrote,
Ever make any sense?
Or appeal to the person
Who tried to read it?

I don’t know what I’d write,
But I’d write my best, and I’d show it.
With hopes of one day.
Becoming a poet.