Perhaps My Poems Have Already Been Written

PERHAPS MY POEMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN Perhaps my poems have already been written Perhaps it is all now senseless repetition Perhaps I should just stop And go on if I can to some other form of writing God gives us what we have We strive to go beyond ourselves We can to a certain point But then we have done what we have done We can live a million years more And write a million more poems But what we have to write Is done Perhaps my poems have already been written And small and poor and awkward as they are Less than the truest poetry They are what I have and am Good-bye myself I cannot go home.