Discovery of Expression

(poems go here)It all started when I was thirteen So full emotion and commotion Cause by the taunting of others And the stress I would see from a single mother Always lost in my head Some days so full of dread Sometimes I thought it would better for all To leave things unsaid The thoughts that would race through my mind I wanted to shout them out and cry But I felt like I would be in the way So I just kept my feelings at bay Fighting my self in the inside I didn’t want to feel this way I wanted someone one listen A way I can share my emotions Then I discovered poetry through a friend Grated that school showed me the poem But my friend showed me the beauty A world full of expression and connection All at the turn of a page I became obsessed to know what the author felt That I wanted to see if I could also be free Once that pen hit the paper my words overflowed I found myself writing on and on about live and love Pain and joy. All the things that we feel that prove that we are alive. This art, this ships that carries my to beauty and expression. I see it all over, poets just like you and me. With dreams and fear That they share. With us. A piece of themselves shown to us. Now isn’t that just beautiful?