Ideas

Like so many men before me,
    I sit and I write.
Though I know that I, in all I do,
am only rewriting what has already been written.
And to know that all I have said, am
saying, and will say -- has already been said.
And though I know this, as men before me,
  I sit and I write.
In hopes that I will say one thing
  One simple thing
That will be my own.
In a world full of overdone Ideas
I want to say something, anything,
That will mean something to someone.
In doing so, I will fulfill my duty to myself
                  As a scholar
                  As a Poet
                  As a Poetic
                  As a writer
                  As a reader
                  As a dreamer
                  As a wanter
                                      of something more than
                                                        just
                                                    Old Ideas.

      Then, in doing so, I can live on happily.