Let's Kill Poetry

Lets kill poetry!
Lets not write anymore rhymes
...find other things to do with our time.
Lets take a break and refuse
to create...
anything beautiful.
Lets place on a high shelf
in a far corner
those things that challenge
our minds to think outside
conventional lines.
Sweep under the rug
feelings of oppresion.
Drown yourself in a pool
of your own transgressions.
Tie up and throw in the garbage
your disgust at all the world's senseless
carnage.
Never celebrate where you've been
or dream of things you want to see
happen.
Make war not love
Hide your face from the grace
that pours from heaven
above.
Lets kill poetry!
But if you do...
I, and everything that flows
within me will die
too.