What is poetry?

Poetry,

A word I never liked in high school

Every time I would speak I felt ridiculed

What's the point? I thought 

This is something that should never be taught

Then I remember reading Maya Angelou

Writing about all the things that she's been through

And I realized this is a platform

Talk about what life has thrown at you  

Talk about the wrongs of society

Talk about... anything 

As long as you're expressing

It's a way to say how you feel

Even if it sounds a little surreal