"I hate this poem," "basically stolen poem," i can think of other names that fit, too. the one "modeled after marysomething something's poem

I, too, am entranced by it,

The messages,

In mine, and others’.

                Read with your own heart,

                And not just your eyes.

Find the message, what it says for you.

I search for meaning, it’s my favorite part.

For music, the same search often occurs.

And when I write, I, too, pour in my heart.

                Sadly, that’s not always how others work,

                Thirty-second poems, made just for a grade.

                It frustrates me, beyond belief.

Poetry, it’s everywhere,

Hasty authors write away,

But who’s to say

Their hearts are there?

Favorite Friday Poem

"A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

In visions of the dark night
           I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
           Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
           To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
           Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream- that holy dream,
           While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
            A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
            So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
            In Truth's day-star?

"Don't."

Don’t turn your head, oh ignorant child

Don’t close your eyes to what you see

Don’t close your eyes to crowded streets and dollar signs

Don’t be blind to hypocrisies and constant crimes

Don’t lose your way, impressionable one

Don’t stray from the path that you set for yourself

Don’t stray to the crowd, driven only by greed

Don’t bother, try to change the hypocrites, their lies fill every bookshelf

Save yourself

Don’t lose hearing, oh so deafened child

Don’t cover your ears to what you hear

Don’t cover your ears to their voices, speaking of avarice and golden lore

Don’t be deaf to the words they hide; “money,” “sex,” and “more, more, more”

Don’t fall silent, oh bold singing child

Don’t lower your voice, if the truth you speak

Don’t lower your voice, singing for change that never comes

Don’t sit down, and don’t shut up- you know it’s only lies they keep

Don’t save yourself

Don’t speak to me, oh so foolish child

Don’t utter a word, until you, yourself, understand

Don’t utter a word, until you know, for yourself, the meaning of my words

Don’t speak to me, until you know.

Keep your eyes wide open,

Stay the path,

Listen to every word,

Sing the song in your heart.

Can you save yourself?

Will you even try?