Poet

When I sit to write my words of verse,
 I try to make you feel better not worse.
 So I sit and write when I have the notion,
 to scribe the words to each emotion.
 I try to point out the good not bad.
 For my aim is not to make you feel sad.
 I try to see in each and every situation,
 the smallest glimmer of inspiration.
 And now and then from time to time,
 I struggle for words to make my rhyme.
 And when the words are hard to find,
 I search the corners of my mind.
 And when the words are finally found
 I quickly race to write them down.
 I look for the good in all I see,
 and put it on paper so carefully.
 And when it all fits like I think it should,
 I hope my words made you feel good.

-Keith E. Gerber