Am I A Poet?

Sometimes I wonder if I have mistaken my feelings for poetry.

If the words, I put together are nothing more than thoughts dressed in pretty sentences.

I wonder if a poet is someone who knows exactly what to say, while I find myself questioning every word before it ever reaches the page.

Perhaps I am not afraid of having nothing to write.

Perhaps I am afraid that what I write will never be enough.

That someone will read my words and see nothing where I hoped they would feel something.

To spend so much time trying to make someone feel something through words, while quietly wondering if those same words are worth feeling at all.

I call myself a poet.

Some days, I just wish I believed it.

 

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