Why I am a Poet

A lot of people may ask me,

"Why do you write?"

And I'll say to them, I write

because writing is the only thing that helps me feel.

Oftentimes, I struggle to experience

real emotions. Traumatic events

fail to disstress me.

Even if I want to feel something,

I can't.

It's not in me, I don't have the ability.

Poetry allows me to express

everything I should be feeling

And everything I want to feel.

Emotions of lust, love, sadness, frsutration,

flow through me

and onto the page.

And then, after reading my own work

I begin to feel the things I struggled

to feel once before.

For me,

poetry is an outlet.

A release.

An escape.