Or is he more equipped to express his feelings?

Does he feel more intensely?

Do his feelings ring more true, is he more in tuned? 

Are his emotions more volatile?

Do you have to struggle in order to be a poet, to experience life through a different lens?

Or does every man go through turmoil, turn it around to see it’s purpose to the end? 

Does every man live in someone else’s footsteps and wonder if he will ever live up to expectations brought onto him? 

Is it only certain ones that rise above and become the better man, marking new footsteps for others to follow? 

And what then, as others turn away from the path, turn against the teachings and break the mold of what’s deemed right at the time; do they seek like-minded souls and form a new path? 

Or are they lone pebbles swept aside as the current rolls along without them?