The Importance of Love

 

I don't know where I would be without love. Not just because, if it wasn't for some type of love, that I wouldn't have been born, but because I believe that even when I felt I didn't love myself at all, if I hadn't known that I could, I would've ended it forever ago. 
Recently, I discovered a new love. No, it wasn't that I had fell in love with the girl of my dreams, which I had, but that I love to write. Writing rhymes and raps and poems in prose and poetry that flows just brings me joy. Pure uninhabited joy. With only a pen and a piece of paper, I am able to  take all the problems I face within myself and leave them between the constructions of a loose leaf. To be kept and filed or burned and destroyed or to be shared so that the people I begin to care about can see into the deepest regions of my being. 
I don't know where I would be without love. Writing challenges me to think deeper into myself and look beyond what's on my surface. It forces me to be witty and clever and precise, so that ever word is brought to full perfection. It brings me satisfaction and the ability to reflect on my rights and wrongs, my struggles and triumphs, my demons and my angels. It gives me control, in a world where I feel that every day my life is slipping from my hand. And it allows me to make others happy. Share and build longer and more lasting moments with the people I decide to share my love with. 
For those who don't know me, I've never been one to captivate an audience or seduce the whims of people. I've never been one to seek the center of attention or profess my inner thoughts and feelings. But through writing I can do that. I am able to open myself to the world, and speak my piece. My voice can be heard, even if it is to a few. I can make a difference to a friend, I can encourage a stranger, I can change the world, and I'm grateful for that. Writing had become a part of me. It has changed my identity and how I feel about the world. It has made me a better person, a better brother, and a better friends. And that's why I love it. 
 
 

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