POETRY CAN BE DANGEROUS!

To All My Friends And Even My Foes
I Have A Word Of Advice
If You Are Thinking Of Composing Poems
Make Sure You Think Twice!

Writing Poems Is Something Nice
Or That Is What Everyone Thinks
But Very Few Actually Do Notice
The Problems That It Brings!

The Gift Of Putting Words In Rhyme
And Rhythm Is Considered Rare
But No One Thinks Of All The Trouble
The Poet Has To Bear!

For One, When You Feel Poetic
Nothing Else Can You Contemplate
Everything Else Except Your Poem
You Have To Procrastinate!

Its Always At An Awkward Time
When By This Impulse You Are Hit
You Drop Your Work And Start Composing
Under A Violent Poetical Fit!

You Compose Lines Upon Lines Of Verse
And See Your Poem Through
But If Unsatiated, You Still Compose
Another Poem Or Two!

May God Forbid, But If It So Happens
That Your Poem Remains Uncomposed
The Inspiring Idea Will Hammer Your Brain
Till You Start To Feel Quite Dozed!

And If Your Poem Remains Halfway
Then The Situation Is Even Worse
The Half-Ghost Of The Half-Poem Continues
To Haunt Your Every New Verse!

So Make Sure To Think Twice About
Becoming A Poet Before Its Too Late
I Just Decided To Write In Verse Once
And To This Day I Can’t Talk Straight!!