I Don't Want To Be A Poet....! Poem by Naga Vamshidhar Ratakonda

I don't want to be a Poet,
For the sake of Poems I write,
Or For the heck of,
What the Poem is all about;

I don't want to be a Poet 'cos,
I live the life of my poems,
And my Poems outlive me;

I don't want to be a Poet 'cos,
It isn't me who is seen or felt
In the poem's I write; But
The reader or listener,
Feels or see's theirself in my poetry;

I don't want to be a Poet 'cos,
Garlanded will never be 'Me',
But my 'Portrait',
When I'm 'No More'!

Poems of mine accepted,
And me the poet rejected?
Simply put, I'm Jealous of
My own Poems;
Hence, I don't want to be a Poet!

Oh Almighty! Why this disparity,
With Poets Alone?
Will the Creator (GOD)like to be Rejected,
And his Creation adored?

But I still write Poetry fuming,
'I don't want to be a Poet'!