Should this poem be flippant?
Carefree?
Lazy?
Maybe funny?
Or should it be dark?
Depressive?
Full of death and anger?
Should this poem rhyme?
Should it sing?
Should the metaphors jump from the page
and run around the room?
Should this poem pull me into the grave?
Pull my grief outwards?
Until tears flow and my heart aches?
Must this poem be anything at all?
Can it just be itself?
Tired and muddy
Wordless and tone-deaf.
Why does a poem
Need to be anything at all?
I feel like this poem captures how I felt while completing this challenge perfectly. What should the next poem be? Or can it just be? I like the ending two lines a lot: “Why does a poem / need to be anything at all?”