Essentials To Being A Great Poet. Poem by Hardik Vaidya

What does it take to be a great poet?
Often people say a great human.
I reject the argument.
Mother Teresa was perhaps the greatest human I knew.
She did not even write poetry.
What does it take to be a great poet?
A mind of glass, cheap glass, which can be scratched.
A spirit of local molasses which can be brewed.
A heart born ill fated, pre loaded with the disease of eternal love.
A brain wired to repel ridicule as water repels oil.
A lover, even if jilted, a prima Donna, a madonna
Who does not preach.