A
Million Voices
The
writers
All come
& go
All trying
to be
The
eternal voice
The next
dark saint of
Their age
In every
era
In every
century
The Words
Crashing
through
Every
window
Every door
Waiting to
be
The next
Shakespeare or
The next
revelation
To become
something
More than
merely human
Touching
human souls
With human
words
Timeless
But
forgotten
Amid the
drama
Of all
civilization
To be the
scholar
The oracle
Instead
Soon to
become
The lost
voice of humanity
The voice
of desperation
The voice
of what
All of us
eventually become
Mere souls
Without
mortal
Coils
Buried
Like a
book
In the
library
Never
touched
Never read
Never seen
And then?
They have
the nerve
To call
us
“Poets”
R.M.
Engelhardt is an
American poet, writer & author whose work over the last 30 years has been
published in a wide number of journals and zines. He currently lives &
writes in Upstate NY and is the Editor of the Small Indie Poetry Press Dead
Man’s Press Ink. His new book of poetry is entitled “The Dying Time”, Published
by Valhalla Shelter Press 2026 and is available now.
