Poetry is Not a Luxury

When difficulties surface,                                                                                                                     
                                         body language tells all--                                                                 catches me                                                                                       in the act of being real and I wonder if          it's fair                                                                                                                                                     to call myself poet.                                                                                                                         Afterall, I should know how to share                                      space, make everything                              okay, but challenges come along, a risk to work together.  No small thing to share space,                                          communicate,  overlook frustrations--                         I should know                                                   how to do this--but I'm still learning.