The Job of a Poet

The job of a poet, to enlighten the world,
And show us what it can be.
They take words. They take phrases.
They take popular crazes,
In an effort to set us all free.

A poet is truth, both the good and the bad.
With honesty drawn from a pen
A story is told.
Emotions are sold.
As true now as ever was then.

Modern day Merlins conjure life up from words.
Magic out of confusion.
They seek to turn gold,
Out of words that are told.
Alchemists of the allusion.