Write On

Does poetry really depend on new ideas

fresh words concerning the nature of lives

Haven't the ideas with their words

all been presented

Throughout time, in one form or another

the stories all been told

Do we really think we have created something new

something original

by changing names and places

The expressions used changed

rearranged

and repeated time and again

Then labelled as cliché

as some have recognized the story

There is nothing new

Nothing purely original

It is all cliché to someone

If new and original are the requirements

and it's all been said

Then poetry is dead

Write on

share your heart

and though it's been said

tell your story

Somebody needs to hear it again