The Bottoms of My Trousers Rolled

This is the first day. Dawn.
The dawn of all my hell-bent hopes
and dreams and fears and thoughts;
it is too difficult.

Can I even try?
Should I?

Plato in his Republic calls
and asks me to see
what I have missed.
The things I should have done.
The games I won, undone.

Then the day ends. Night.
I am full of fright,
fright that someone will find
this poem and force others
to know its worth.

Is there meaning? No.
Go watch a TV show.

Ah, the Poetics.