Why Poetry

Why Poetry?

Others ask “Why in the hell are you writing poetry?”

Bikers shake their heads and sort of smirk at me

Same old answer, “I guess just tryin’ to express myself”

What the hell? Man, it works even if it ain’t top shelf

Some have said it’s just a way to feel sorry for me

I don’t think so, just writing down facts that happen to be

Certainly I agree it is a way that I can vent

No Ole Lady to listen, there at the room that I rent

Maybe it’s some higher power bringing out a talent in me

No, someone that intelligent would have not picked poetry

And to think in High School, English was really a bore

Two classes every year, making up the one I failed before

Still wondering why and really racking my brain

Why in the hell I am riding this poetry train?

Hell, I just figured it out, It’s just my free therapy

Something to do when I can’t ride Ole Doc Harley