Why I write poems

            I often write poems when stories fail 
to reveal the emotions that burst in my heart

            Of fear and of love, of both sorrow and joy 
that only my poetry’s willing to part

           For words to reach within someone’s soul 
and wash it clean with the tears of our life

            We both humbly and boldly take on the role 
of a poet who plays his “drum” and “fife”.