Modern Prose

Who is to determine what makes good poetry?
Some meaningful lyrics of songs that do not rhyme seem to sound poetic,
especially when it sings to and from the heart.
Yes, maybe in literature we need rules to govern what defines a poem.
But for a layman who has not studied literature,
who is to say that one cannot appreciate the literary art?
The written word was never meant to be exclusive, and majority of this world are the lay people audience.
Words when expressed in its various forms begs to reach out and find appeal to those who could resonate with it.
The writer knows that one's time will come to end but one's work once released could continue to reach out beyond one's time.
If a work was meant to reach out as far as time could carry it,
who is to know if it could stand the test of evolution of human tastes and understanding?
Nonetheless, let it be released!
There's no benefit in damming the floods inspiration in when it's bursting to get out.
Who cares if someone else gets it?
Yet usually somewhere, somehow another soul resonates.
These sentences may not be considered as poetry;
nobody knows if they could even inspire a song;
yet it could sing like a poem to one whom it flows with.