Oedipus

Fear to put
Put the pen
To the page

For its perfectly
Poignant
In the humility
Of disuse.

Words – not mine – have
Graced blank pages,
Becoming wise works
That are famed
Framed as art.

My pen is poised
But audacity is
Absent.

To claim the page,
Taking their stage –
Requires a skill I have not.