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Rated: E · Poetry · Writing · #1147709
I might be talking to myself.
Poets like to moralize
And bid you how to be.
Poets like to chide the world:
Be brave, live now, die free!
But our own words we disbelieve;
We waver in each view.
Oftentimes we're telling us
As much as telling you.

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