Helen

[Leanne]

Ah, but poetry -- and the characters in poetry -- would die with barely a whimper were it not for those people commenting and considering. Creating is not for everyone, and it is not poetry that inspires change, but what people take from it. The poet can do little but write and hope it reaches below the surface, praying that people will see that sarcasm, wit and ridicule are simply the gloss that leads the eye to more profound critique of society itself and exhorts the reader to take action, even if that action is only changing his/her own world view.