But For Poetry Poem by Gajanan Mishra

But for poetry
I am living,
And for living
I am eating,
I am smiling,
I am traveling,
I am doing the job
That suits poetry.
Poetry is in words,
In actions, in transactions,
In foodstuffs, in breathing air,
In fire, in stars, and
Poetry is telling me,
Do everything for me,
Give everything to me.
And I am using all things
With me to carry out
The mission of writing a poetry.
Everything belongs to
Poetry, I know.
Everybody is moving
With the waves of poetry, I know.
Poetry is life personified,
In poetry, life to be verified.
Is writing poetry a status symbol?
Some enquired.
No, not at all, I clarified.
But poetry is the necessity, I said.
Poetry is necessary for life,
For love, for truth, for living,
And to know nature and
To understand the reality,
Poetry is the platform of each entity.