I am a poet

I am a poet
that is how i live
that is how i'll die
I am a lover of words
a charlatan to the naked eye
I am a rainstorm in a world of fallen trees
-in laughter, i am the sigh
I am a problem
sandwiched in a life of complication
I am one beat within two hearts
-and i am the reverberation.

Many of you who feel at loss:
I am the pathless way
Listen close to my silence
and ignore only what i will not say
I am directionless and misleading
I am the thought your hindsight has brought
I am the firefly within the night
and the child that was never caught
I am the truth between sutures
-in death, i am a sham
In the twilight of unbroken evening
 you can become all that i am

I am a poet
that is how i lived
that is how i must have died