Poetry

So much depends on poetry.

It’s how we learn to love, you see,

it’s where we first interrogate

our feelings, how we navigate

an often harsh reality -

On formal forms, on verse that’s free,

on dactyl, iamb and spondee,

on how we choose to punctuate

so much depends.

In this world of uncertainty

where people mostly disagree

except about the things they hate,

where Heaney’s lost and Bieber’s great,

on how we value poetry

so much depends…