There's something about a poet

Here is a poem about my newly found infatuation with writers and poets, the cousins of us visual artists :)

There's something about a poet

When I was a little girl
If you had said "Sydney, you will be infatuated with poets"
Number one, I would have asked you how do you "infatuate"
And number two I wouldn't have believed you
Little girls dream of knights and princes
Or street rats with potential like Aladdin
And yet here I am on this couch reading words
and grinning like a fool
Words, words, words
No longer do they sit on the page mocking me
quiet and self-centered
They rise and fall
They color my mind and jitter my thoughts
So while he may not wield a sword
There is something to be said for a man
who can wield a pen