Why Poetry

(poems go here)Why Poetry?

When I was young

I wanted to escape

I wanted to dream

No one could relate

I couldn’t explain

It wouldn’t come out

I put the words on paper

That were trapped inside my mouth

Alicia Keys wrote poetry

Langston Hughes too

If they could write their problems

Escape the world

There’s nothing I could not do

Poetry made me feel free

It made my problems go away

Poetry makes me smile

Poetry makes my hope here to stay

So when people ask why don’t I get angry, why I don’t cry and not stop?

They say why poetry, I say why not?

Damica Odom

June 9, 2013