Poetry is... Me.

When i was told 

i could not express what i felt

the way i chose,

I was broken.

my confidence shattered.

a crisis arising in my mind

as i felt everything i had 

ever expressed in this form 

before was suddenly wrong.

or, bad.

or, problematic. 

I was broken.

and I never wanted to express 

in that way again.

Poetry gave me clearity,

sometimes cloudiness.

It reveals my feelings

to myself

before I realize what they are. 

Poetry is who I am

and who I will always be.

If you try to take that away,

I'll write a very mean poem about you...