I look to you, poem, that I am writing
To be miraculous
To be powerful
To be award-worthy
To be a deep, interesting, true-self-finding experience
To be a literary masterpiece
To be something that blows the reader’s mind
To be something that surpasses expectations by thousands of miles
To be something that even the toughest of folks break down into sobbing puddles
To be fun to write
To not make me want to bang my head against the table wishing from the bottom of my heart that I could write something else
To be something that I’m at least a little bit happy with