The Meaning Behind Poem by Tyrone Holmes

What does it mean?
To be a parent
Does it mean
You’ll always be there for your child
To love them and appease them

What does it mean?
To live a full life
Does it mean
You’ll do anything for attention
You’ll use and abuse drugs
Until your life is empty

What does it mean?
To be in a relationship
Does it mean
You’ll enter the temple
Just to leave, to never return

What does it mean?
To care for someone
Does it mean
You’ll be there to the end
And then
Still want to be there for them

What does it mean?
To be a poet
Does it mean
You combine words
Like no one else
Or
You spill your emotions
On sheet and sheets
Of paper for people to view

What does it mean?
To have a meaning
Does it mean
To be judged by others
Or to assert one’s audacity
Upon one’s self
Or
To leave this world
With vivid memory in others