When You Read Poetry

When you read poetry,

it should first, crouch in your soul

then alight on the tongue

as tender as a prayer.

When you read poetry,

it should live within you

to sit and dwell upon,

lighting corners of your mind.

When you read poetry,

it should sing in it's own voices

a chorus to itself

giving way to great chasms of silence.

When you read poetry,

it will exist within the walls of your soul.

But also push your mind, outwards

expanding it's dimensions by the tip of your tongue