Dear Poetry
Dear Poetry,
Thank you for always being there.
I mean, I'd be worried if you ran away from me
Black scribbles flying off the page making me double check my prescriptions
Metaphores about monsters in my head crawling under my bed
Similies and allterations stringing together to form a look like large looming lions
If you left me, slide off the page, scrambled out the door,
grabbed a cab and left me here
I would be all alone
again.
So thank you poetry
for letting me abuse you at two am
when no one is awake
and no one wants to listen
for letting me spew the weirdest shit when I can't sleep
because the nightmares are all too real
For listening to me when I couldn't get my best friend to eat
For understanding when I couldn't breath
For being something I could come back to when I couldn't go home
Thank you poetry
for being everything you mean to me
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