Selecting a Reader

"Selecting A Reader" is a poem that I wrote for my poetry anthology book, it is about choosing the person who you would think would be reading your poems.  This poem explains through out it who I think the perfect reader should be.  I think that this is one of the best poems that I have written in my creative writing class.  There is no rhyme scheme to this poem, which I think in the end makes it sounds more like a story than just a poem.

Selecting A Reader

First, he has to be wise,

He will know my words and understand them,

He will look for inspiration,

And come upon my poems.

From there he will sit,

Quietly thumbing through them,

Reading each line,

With as much intensity as he can muster.

As he reads he will sip his coffee,

And tap his foot.

He won’t stop reading until the last line,

The last word.

After he has finished

He will put my poems on his shelf,

Where they will sit,

Collecting dust for years.

Until one day,

He stumbles upon my poems,

And begins to read them

Once more.