What Poets Know
A poet knows
There are one thousand ways to tell a lie
And only one way to tell the truth
A poet knows
That sometimes a lie makes a better story
Than any truth ever would
A poet knows that people speak
Sometimes without thought or purpose
But simply because mouths must move
And words must find a way to stay alive
A poet knows
That to all stories there are three parts
And that every story must end eventually
But what a poet does not know
Is how hearts work or how time passes
Without any sort of notice until the pages
After the bookmark simply become less
And less
Until there is one
And then a sentence
That ends with a period.
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