What Poetry Taught Me

At first I thought they were just words,

Words absenmindedly written and tossed aside without thought.

Then I dove deeper in the water,

descending into a chasm of undsicovered emotions and stories not yet told.

Poetry taught me that not everything is as it seems,

and that one must dig past the simple words and analyze something much more

powerful than themselves. 

It let me express emotions long repressed,

inscribe words that I could not vocalize,

and present an apsect of me long forgotten and buried under the ever-pressing

hand of societal expectations.

Poetry taught me that no matter who you are,

no matter where you came from,

and no matter what you believe in,

you can always find solace with it.

Because if poetry is one thing,

it is ours,

Sculpted by the mind and created from the heart.