poems

I've never personally been into poetry. I have a hard time understanding it. I've never really been good at writing it either. The past couple of months I've just had a lot of things on my mind. Some days I find myself laying in bed, crying over nothing at all. But as I was laying in bed one night, this first poem just started writing itself in my brain. At first I tried to just stop thinking about it and fall asleep, but it just didn't work. Instead I got up at one in the morning and wrote it down.

The first poem in this book, "Dam", is the very first poem that I have ever written that I feel confident about. It is about all of my feelings being bottled up inside. It's about how I never have anyone to tell my feelings to. I keep all of my emotions in and hide them behind a facade. A few days ago it all broke loose, all of the scary and the ugly. And that's what brought on this first poem. I feel as if no one knows the real me, as if my feelings never go anywhere but inside my head. So instead I wrote it down, and now I feel like someone knows, even if you don't know me personally.

Thank you.