What is poetry?

What is poetry? What is to live? Finding eternal happiness through metaphoric bliss. What is poetry? What is it to see? Broadening your horizons to more then what we merely see. Poetry is expression in the simplest way Escaping from the oppression of an average day. Poetry is freedom from the shackles of society It connects us all, the wide variety. Poetry is free, poetry is art. So what is poetry? It's what is in your heart.