I Want To Write Poetry 01/03/09
by Chanel Wiggins
I want to write poetry because I have too many things inside my head,
too many feelings bottled up.
Too many experiences I’ve been through,
too many close calls I’ve encountered.
A pen and a pad is the only place that I can free my mind,
relax when I need an outlet to run away to.
I don’t even have any peace within my mind,
because too many thoughts are rolling around wanting to get out onto this paper.
I need to release the hate,
the loathe, the resentment.
I need to unleash the love,
the laughter, the tears of joy.
I just have to unwind all that’s in between
and let my story be told.
My words are the only thing I can truly call my own.
They have no monetary value or a price,
and if they did, they would be priceless.
For what I’ve been through was priceless and now I’m sharing with you,
sharing what I’ve endured with the world.
My happy place.
I take these jumbled up emotions and make sense out of them.
The feeling of writing relaxes me,
calms me and soothes me.
Pleases me unlike any love I’ve ever known.
It’s not something I like to do, but more like something I---
need.
I want to write poetry because it is a part of me,
and if I stopped then I wouldn’t be a whole person,
just half or maybe even a quarter.
We are like outcasts looking in on a perfect world.
You play division 1 sports, but I write.
You get good grades, but I write.
You work all day long making millions of dollars but I write.
You do your thing, and I’ll keep writing.
It’s not something that you learn to do,
you just do it.
I want to write poetry all day long without a care in the world,
without a worry in my head,
without a feeling in my heart.
But then I wouldn’t be a poet,
because poets need things to worry about and inspirations to write.
I don’t want to write poetry,
I “need” to write poetry.
