Personal Poetic Purpose

[Quicksilver]

Plainly
Presentations in polite phrases
Pointing, per prolonged prognostication,
To public problems
Or, perhaps, plain, prosaic pride

Plaguing a populace
Via pithy profundity performance
Pills, per prideful prescription
Pressure-cooked pursuing pinnacles of personhood
But plaque-filled, and puddle-deep
Preachily screeching personal politics
Purpose-built, passive, performative shit

Per contra
Putting aside pleasant phrase-play
Words woven in crystalline lattices
Prismatic in both directions,
Internally transformative
Hopefully meaningful
Promoting phase-changes in attitude
Provoking a thought that would not be

That is my deep-well reason
Plain personal purpose
Of poetry