Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms
Another writer
Photos and stories
A color the sky turns
Lyrics from music.

Inspiration comes in all shapes and forms
A whisper or a shout
A cry or whimper
A step or stumble
Words of a foreign tongue.

Inspiration comes in lots of shapes and forms
Ones you can’t see
A smell that connects to memory
A lost time or lost cause
Lives forgotten in time.

Inspiration comes in many shapes and forms
I could tell you all
But this poem would never end
Inspiration comes in too many shapes and forms
Sizes and lives
People.

You.
Yes you.
The one reading this.
You have inspired someone,
At some point.
With your art,
Or your life,
Your clothes,
Your language or religion,
Or maybe your mistakes.

And maybe whomever you inspired,
Maybe they inspired you.