Ars Poetica

The investigation produced 1,987 pages of text.

A committee reads over it, scrutinizes it –                  so many words

and they still

cannot agree

on what to do

What more explanation could there be?

Then the poem.

Fifteen lines, fifteen words, fifteen syllables

It could be exact and transparent

It could be ambiguous and vague

It could scold you like your parents

It could bother you like a plague.

But the poem says more than the 1,987 pages.

The poem moves your soul

Like Kerri Strug’s vault of gold.

The poem asks you to ask why,

As you look up with tears at the sky.

The poem makes you mad mad mad

Or maybe sad sad sad.

The poem doesn’t waste your time

Even if it does not rhyme.

The art of poetry helps us find our human nature –

A nature that if not found will leave us as empty shells

Left after a gruesome battle for dominance

Where winner takes all…all but his own essence.

Poetry is necessary

Even the committee can agree on that.