To Be A Poet Poem by Pranab K Chakraborty

nothing is indispensable
to be a poet
not wealth
no sleeping with opposite
travelling not
triggering not
only poet needs
a heart to love and hate
needs food to eat
a shelter to stay
in peace

poet lives originally
where resides countless
stars and planets
galaxies and star-storm
poet resides within the life
whence individual life
begins and finishes its journey
inside a limit of time and space

nothing is indispensable
to a poet in truest sense
but we the human being
who compose
poetry and hankering a reader
to appreciate skill and talent
need many things
as a man needs
perversion and autocracy
flirting and filthing
travelling and tampering
medicine and madhouse
ultimately
money, security, wine
and partners to share primitive polygamy
to flag high
the animal instinct!