Try To Poem by Ben Partenay

understand the frustration
of putting something, this
thing, down on paper and
then try to help the eyes

understand that it is not
paper, but words, and only
words, that they are alive
and moving and trying to

understand themselves as
much as any of us, then
picture the intellectuals
and thinkers trying to

understand what's behind
it all, where the meaning
lies in hiding and asking
are the demons back? try to

understand the frustration
of making a word more
than itself and sitting back.
let them be, let them be.

try to.