Poem: Elemental

I wrote this poem a long time ago, and it's one of the ones I'm most proud of.  It's awkward, word choice is sometimes poor, and rhythm...well, I wrote this before I had ever taken a poetry class.  Let me tell you, taking a poetry class was really good for my writing.  As were the two classes on Shakespeare, Master of All.  (We should really start referring to him like that.)  Do you realize just how much of a genius he was?  I mean, I could go on an don and on about how wonderful Shakespeare is.  (and I don't mean Robert Deniro's whoopsie pirate)  I could probably fill a post with--

~please, don't fill a whole post talking about Shakespeare, I'm begging you.

What?  Why not, Snark?

~If I have to hear you go on and on about him again, I really might do something drastic.

!Don't worry!  I love Shakespeare!  I think you should write a whole post about him!  He's wonderful!

~See?  This is why I didn't want you to talk about him.  It makes Enthusiasm get all...gooey.

--Gooey is the natural state of Enthusiasm.

~And now Mr. Logical has come to stick his nose in the picture.

--It is incorrect to label me as 'male,' as I am only a manifestation of our decidedly female--

~Shut up, Mr. Logical.  You're as male as I am.

!I'm a girl!

~Yes.  We know.  All the dumb sections are.

--That is highly chauvinistic and completely incorrect--

~So you're admitting I'm male?

--I beg your pardon?

~It's not chauvinism if I'm not male.  So you admit--

_You know, Snark, you really shouldn't make statements like that.

~uh-oh...

_The rest of us get offended when you say hurtful things.  And there really are more of us than you.

~You threatening me, Calm?  Who died and made you king?  

--Actually, it would be Queen, if we were continuing our gender theme--

~Shut up.

_Be nice, Snark.  We need him.  

~That's what you always say.

--It's quite true, you always do.  I would offer gratitude, but I'm not equipped for it.

!Hi Calm!  I like you even though I never see you much!  Why don't we ever see each other much?!

_We are opposites, Enthusiasm.  We can't both occur at the same time--or at least, it is very difficult.

!But I like you!

_Thank you.

~Hold all that touchy feely nonsense, Calm.  I've still got a bone to pick with you--

_Some other time, Snark.  Now we must give way to what is intended to happen.

~Oooh, now she's all cryptic and mystical--

--I believe she is talking about the post, Snark.  We've interrupted it for quite a while.

~'grumble grumble'

!Poems!  Shakespeare!

~Don't you start that again!

Ah, well.  Back to business. 

Elemental

Give me a kiss, said the star

And I will give you the sky.

You will fly like a bird

and shine like the sun

But no one will know of your name.

Give me your dreams said the world

And I will give you the earth.

You will live like a king

And do what you please

But first you must give up the sky.

Tell me the truth, said I.

Must I give up the earth and the sky?

If I walk the long road

Where nobody goes

And no one has ever returned.

They never replied, so I went to the sea

For it always remembered my name.

And the path I shall take

I will never regret

For in giving my life, I am free.