To Be a Poet

To be a poet is not to write poems

No,

Most anyone can do that

Most anyone has done that

For school, 

Maybe

To be a poet is to see a tree

And not just see a tree

To see the hungry branches reaching to the sun

Trying to grasp something,

But never quite reaching it

Because to be a poet is to have words rushing through your blood

To need poetry like oxygen

To see a dandelion and think of a past love

So beautiful, taking up your being,

But then to blow away with all your hopes and dreams

Exactly like you did to me

To be a poet is to live in the in-betweens

Between real life and fantasies

To know the deepest truths

And believe the greatest lies

And I don't know if anyone can be a poet,

Or if it's just how you're born,

But I know that poetry is more than just the words

Because to be a poet is not only about poetry,

It's about the world that those poems let you see