why i write poetry

I write for it's all I have I write to let my feelings fly to let the sins and pain wash out I feel the pen in my hand each word that I write, it gives me a little hope I write to let myself free you may listen, you may not, but I write for my reasons alone I write to think, to breathe, to live I write to smile, to laugh, to cry poetry is my heart I cannot let it pass me for each and every word I write, it has a story, it has a meaning antisuicide I write about most about how I've come too close I write to testify, to teach you a new that the knife isn't as what they think it's to be I write to tell you that you're not alone to tell you I'm still alive this is why I write