poets

we call ourselves poets
but we don't only write poetry.
sometimes, we paint the shabby walls with words
and translate sunsets into verse.
sometimes, we watch the world wilt and wrinkle 
and then gaze in awe as it sprouts and re-blooms from its deadness.
sometimes, we speak in blue skies and turn thin air into a canvas
and other times we just sleep.

sometimes we just dream,
and other times, we construct
cities in our heads,
other times we sculpt landscapes.

we call ourselves poets,
but a word speaks a thousand pictures
which in turn speaks a thousand words each.
we call ourselves poets;
but all we do is take our freedom of speech
and multiply it,
turn it into freedom of everything, for all people
all we do is change perspectives, like photographers
all we do is make the world colorful, like artists
all we do is fill hearts with static and heads with new ideas, like teachers

i call myself a poet,
but words can't express what true poets are capable of.