Poetry
Poetry may be an entirely human concept, or perhaps it is innate to all living things. Poetry can be found anywhere, if you look hard enough. Maybe that's why it is such a comforting thing for me.
Crying to a God
Though I am not told which one
He must be special.
That's an ancient kind of poetry, but I still like it. More modern poets don't capture feelings as succinctly with their drawn out prose and metaphors. Rhyme and meter is secondhand to emotion, which is fine, but poetry aims to bring them together in harmony. That is why modern poets are such a disappointment to me. I am fine with writing of emotion and nothing else, but to claim it as poetry, an art form where rhyme and meter are intrinsic to the fabric of it - I do not appreciate that nearly as much.
The past beckons with bitter temptations,
The future warns with pre-emptive terror;
The present lies with its own creations,
Truth is hidden by small human error.
It would be nice to be remembered as the last poet of Earth, even though I am not native. I don't doubt many others are writing poetry now, too. But, perhaps I am the only one with any chance of documentation. It's hard not to consider that when I write, the idea that I could be representing a whole kind of people. The kind of people that did not go out in a blazing glory, but faded from the universe as if they were never there to begin with.