When thoughts are too deep for telling in prose,
When sentences and phrases can’t suffice;
When words and feelings just cannot come close
Then recourse to poetry take the wise.
When words are overshadowed by meaning,
When logic overrides the expression;
When writer simply writes as he’s dreaming
But rules of language mar his intention;
It’s then that poetry assumes a shape,
When tears drip from a heart that is broken.
A poem consists not only of words,
Its each word is, of feelings, a token.
Wounds of the heart does true poetry nurse,
What can’t be healed by balm is healed by verse.
• Initially written for the book "MISCELLANEA" , MISCELLANEA as entry #373720
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