Poetry Found Me

Poetry found me when I had just become a teen. Before then I had loved to write but that was just short stories My ninth grade English teacher really sparked my love for poetry. I was so inspired that a friend and I wrote a book of poems for her to keep Poetry has become a part of who I am In many ways it has saved me from myself In my poems I can express who I am In my darkest times my poems have given me a glimpse of light that I thought was lost When I'm hurt I turn to poetry a near and dear friend to me When I thought of death poetry gave me a will to live No matter what I am feeling be it happy, sad, or mad poetry is there for me to help me mend To make me whole again I have notebooks galore full of tales of my life some are straight forward others symbolic all of them full of my passion. Without my poems I would be lost I probably would have given up long ago... Poetry is the world to me with out it a piece of me is missing Poetry is so much more to me than words on a paper It doesn't matter if it comes from me or from another poet poetry is how we speak it connects you to me. Poetry found me when I was but a teen and it found me at the perfect time.