What Poetry means to me

Poetry means, “freedom”

Freedom from constant thoughts that run through my head, leaving my mind undone

Poetry means, “expression”

Without defamation

Because everyone has a different interpretation  

There are no conflictions within poetry

Because what one line means to you may not mean the same to me

As a poet, you set the pace

Writing every day and no experience goes to waste

Through the struggles of living can we only succeed

Because every teardrop is a lyric, a stance, a stanza to me

Becoming a poet helped me cope

Cope with the living

And cope with the dead

The ones that hurt

And the ones that have a permanent place to rest their heads

The feeling one gets when pen touches paper

Is the same feeling one gets when they see water turn into vapor

Later

But later never comes because the rhythmic pulse of the creativity that flow out of me

Cannot be tamed or a repeat

That pulse is the same one that inspires me to continue to write poetry.