I’ve never been much of a poet.

My tongue trips over words
with an awkward uncertainty
and my deciphering of context
is more than a shade awry.

Yet the ebb and flow of my life’s own observations
boil and roil and toil within me, yearning to be known;
like a rush hour traffic jam on a Monday morning,
my thoughts often race to a halt before speeding on.

Words that best express me
wax and wane and stop and go;
lost to the traffic of my mind,
my musings become congested.

In this strange habit I have of thinking silently aloud,
I seem to have rambled my thoughts into a corner
and, having tripped over an awkward pause in conversation,
I ponder navigating a new course of words through the jam.

But the words that I search for
are always miles ahead or behind
and I come to realize once again -
I’ve never been much of a poet.