A Dead Poet’s Woes

I am a dead poet

and I am scared.

Down below there, I see a panel

of some learned friends and foes.

In their minds they hold a few tools

some called ‘literary device’.

My verses on the table lie,

They cut and pierce and wound

and then lay my words to rest.

Rip me off my poetic talent

And think their interpretation the best!

 

I sit and pray here, in the heavens above;

“God! If only they could peep into my tender heart,

And care to know the truth that I concealed with my art!”