Poetry

Day after day

I write my verse trying to explain

What is going on in

My brain

My heart

My soul

The emotional stress

that takes it's toll

There are

Days of joy

Days of light

That send my imagination into flight

Poetry is a way of life you see

We live it everyday

The joy

The fun

The hurt

The pain

This is why we write

Not just to clear or heads

Not just to quiet our thoughts

Do we do this

We hope to touch peoples lives

To let them know

They are not alone in the way they feel

To reach out to the hurting

To let them know there are other emotional outlets

That they don't have to turn to

Drugs

Hatred

Crime

Sueiside

I have lost to many friends

Because they had no emotional outlet

Because they turned to one of those mentioned above

This hurts me

Watching them throw their lives away

Ending up in jail

Or in the grave

And for what

All because they had no better way to express themselves