Poetry and I

I discovered the experience

Of unbuckling a world

that I alone create

Like opening that ambiguous door

Words escaping, slithering away

The emotions I felt

Too great and extravagant

to share with any one

That exhilarating feeling

And only to me

does it make any sense

Saying these feelings

so hard and frustrating

The want to give up

like in water polo game

but gather the strength to push on

And find a way

to inscribe them

Page after page

of scribbles, cross outs and ^add-ins

My life’s sketch

brought out in words

Thoughts and reflections

which have never been uttered

Even to my closest friend

I know the pages

will listen without judgment

Unlike people

they understand.

Author: ~ELM~Sister Lou~

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