Poetry has taught me to be me,

Lesson learned.

Poetry has taught me to express who I am,

Lesson learned.

Poetry has taught me to be free,

Lesson learned.

Poetry is the words we cannot put into sound,

Lesson learned.

Poetry is the wind that blows no matter who is around,

Lesson learned

Poetry is an open door to a whole other world where only a few gets to discover,

Lesson learned.

Poetry is art that's not displayed with shapes and colors but words and letters that are put into feelings, 

emotions, rhythm, and strings of a person's heart,

Lesson learned.

Poetry reveals the self conscience and what it keeps tucked inside until it displays itself onto paper,

Lesson learned.

Poetry is moving, touching, revealing, healing, and uplifting,

Lesson learned.

Poetry allows even the most quietest of them all to have a voice no matter how loud is the world

around them, no matter the trouble, no matter the pain, no matter the struggle, no matter the judgement,

and all the negativity that's out to destroy them? To have a voice and let it be loud and heard even when no one

wants to hear them,

Lesson learned.