what is a poem

 what is a poem 

when you are inside a poem it loses its identity

it is like looking for air to breathe when you are already breathing 

one minute you are in a vacuole then it collapses

the sea roars its pleasure

welcome to your new home where

there are no doors to oil with your tears or with your smiles 

there is no outside to be inside of

to write a poem inside a poem is to bubble up another universe

a new poem is a budding if you like 

the replication of a question

to which the answer is replicated 

for there is no answer 

there is no answer

there is no answer

but another poem 

and another poem

and their screams