I am a modern poet
full of longing and regret
lusting for the future I’ve never met
feeling bent and lost

I have earned my degree
in the city
of commonplace necessity
This burning never ceases
to imbibe me

I am a modern poet
celebrating what I’ve lost
my deaf blind machinery
Yearning for the shell
of what I used to believe.

4:30 am  •  2 October 2011