Copy Cat

Posted by Robert Anderson On Tuesday, June 9, 2009 0 comments

If in thought for every time

you had been believed
for everything you had made up
then tell me who might see

what it is you claim to know
and how you wrote that rhyme
that gave you every prop you said
you'd earn in all due time

it seems a little too well known

to me and I see how
you came up with the perfect scheme
to write your feelings down

it was originality
that mended both its wings
but just not from the point of view

of you who had began

to go insane with each attempt
by how you couldn't wake
until you read the verses of

a style you'd imitate

it worked in almost every tone
and every word embraced
I think you ought to bow your head
just lower it in shame

why have a poet as a babe
within the woods unfree

and think that they would never know
what still belongs and breathes

don't you dare deny it
no, it's not worth it to try
cause I know for a fact you tossed
your style to copy mine

empirical shadows and beautiful light