I can't be a poet anymore
I've left that title in search of greater things
I have squeezed into the title just to find it it doesn't fit
That I don't wear it well
That it's skin tight and I can't breathe
This label, this label has become a chain, a weight
I am not a poet
I am made up words broken up into stanzas
My life filled with similes
Like a pen to paper
As the bird to the air
I am a bird learning that the cage that was said to protect me has imprisoned me
I am bursting with metaphors
I use alliteration, I am accustomed to acquainted associated with an abyss of words
Stanzas saturated with satire and spearing sentences
Repetitious as in me saying
I am not a poet
I am not a poet
I am not a poet
Rhyming everything
Like my writing maturity is gaged my reality and if I don't execute right my delivery could be bypassed by my speed and the words I read need to be understood
Because if I'm not understood I'm irrelevant
So I need to be able to be dissected, analyzed, and defined
To me that does not sound like a poet
I sound like a poem
I sound like your when English says, What does the author mean when she says I am a poem?
I am layers of others opinions but not facts
I am read aloud when I'm not in the room
I am given a stage to be open, like a book
My spine bent to accommodate the reads comfortability
I have to be diluted in order to be digested
And you have the audacity to put a title on this?
Call me a poet? Put me in a frame?
You give me my identity
And I'm supposed to wear it with style
I am not a poet, I am not your poet
I am a poem
But if I am poem I can constantly be re-told
I will grace textbooks and infiltrate classrooms
I can survive generations
I can be listened to and never be given a concrete definition
I am not a poet, I am a poem