I Believe in Poetry

I believe in poetry
Thought distilled and crystallized
As artform and therapy
By which dreams are realized
Spoken to reality

Things which one could never say
By poetry are spoken
Here the hopeless find a way
Out of reach to common speech
To hope where hope is broken

Poetry repairs the breach
Whether written whether read
Hearts connecting each to each
Saying what cannot be said
Reaching what is out of reach

Stylized speech by which we deal
With the world we thus create
With loved hated feared and real
People things and celebrate
Mourn exult cajole debate

Opening closed hearts to feel
Opening blind eyes to see
Opening deaf ears to hear
Opening both you and me
There and here and far and near

I believe in poetry

+Steven Curtis Lance



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