Thank you

There were times when I felt like no one understood

When I was afraid to speak

Like the words i so desperately wanted to be heard

Wouldn't  come out 

That even if they did

It wouldn't matter 

But Poetry...

I live in a world that glorifies loud voices

And ignores the soft

It silences the voices that need to speak the most 

I neeed to speak

My Poetry...

It defied the social norm 

It listened 

It heard

It was heard 

Always

Never silencing nor silenced

My poetry

It allowed me to let go 

It allows me to speak 

My Poetry 

My remedy 

My voice 

MY POETRY

Taught me that though the world would try to silence me

And make me feel like nothing 

That I am more

I always have been

everything

That my voice always mattered and needed to be heard

To never again let me be taken

To never let the world change me 

My Poetry 

Gave me power

Gave me, me

The me I thought I lost far too long ago 

Thank you.