Terrible poet

Let me tell you this first;
I'm a terrible poet.
I can barely write in the first place
Let alone create a quatrain

And those people
Like Shakespeare and Dickinson
must've been geniuses
because a Ballad sounds crazy.

How, anyways, do you turn
picturesque things into simplistic
poems?
the thought of that challenge terrifies me!

And musicians as well!
how they manage
in this day and age
is completely a mystery to me.

But then again
I'm amazed by pigeons.
So this whole thing, whatever it is,
Was a bit of a waste in the first place