Poem to a Poet - Siza Nkosi

I can only bring words to the altar of your soul

Yet sometimes I have no words to offer

But when my pen sinks in the sea of my blank mind

Sounds of your poetry carry me to my highest self

You entice my senses please don’t stop

Make love to my mind please don’t stop

You feed my soul, teach me how to love

Freely like the thoughts on your poetry pages

Sweetly like expressions landing you on world stages

I want what wakes you up at night to write

I want what tells your mind to rhyme

I want what makes you not to keep track of time

When your reality and words reunite

I need you to remain, Poet

For when you are, I also am

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Siza Nkosi (born c. 1997) South Africa

Source: Poetry Potion