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About 3 years ago

I never knew a piece of paper and a pencil

Can change my life

I was always one to keep my emotions inside

When someone told me

You can always talk to me about anything

I looked at it as writing in my notebook

My notebook

Is my treasure chest

Where all the weight that was lifted from my shoulders

Lie in there

Along with my feelings

My tears

My thoughts

Pages

And pages

Filled with my life story

Poetry

Is not just a way of writing

It is a way of expressing myself

        

Through words

And I have fallen in love with words

The way they twist and turn into stories

Happy and sad stories

Like one of my favorite poems I've written

Was about Jordan's

Yes the shoes

I wrote an entire piece about Jordan's

Saying this beautiful

But expensive addiction has impacted my life

Just like poetry has

The difference between Jordan's and poetry

I love poetry way more than Jordan's

Then there's those pieces

That are deep inside my treasure chest

The ones where I talk about myself

How I don't

Stick out of crowd

Or don't attract all the boys

The category labeled fine girls

Is not a category for me

Or how I feel like all the people that have left my life

Has been my fault

When it really isn't my fault

It's just my heart is just too big to blame others

This is why I love poetry

No matter how big or how small my heart is

It'll always understand my problems

My problems are past situations

That I have overcome

Once that pencil hits that paper

Poetry

Is not just a way of writing

It is a way of life

So who knows

Maybe a pencil

        

And a piece of paper

Can change your life too!

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