I started writing poetry not so long ago. It was around October 1996 when I really sat down to write something that wasn't an essay, and I came up with around five rotten poems that I kept and still keep in an old, orange Dysan diskette. Other than that, I only wrote poetry for school assignments and never for myself because I didn't particularly enjoy it. It was only this February, a year and a half later, that I sat down again and decided to do something for myself. I decided to write. An essay seemed too long, a paragraph too plain, a story too complicated, so I resorted to writing poetry. I shed my mask, and wrote out everything, raw and naked. I found that I had a touch for it, and that as I had grown a little older, had developed a talent for choosing words for the maximum effect, as well as a passion for writing. I write about myself and what I feel, as well as the people and the things that happen around me. This is partly why I choose to write as Bullfrog, because I feel that I have exposed too much of my life and of the lives of those in it. Besides, these are also the things that I leave unsaid, the things that I keep in my head, and sometimes, in my heart. I have to let it out of my system somehow, and so far, this has been the most effective, most creative, and most enjoyable way. I write so that I can understand myself and my environment better, so that I can analyze my feelings, why people do what they do or feel what they feel and why things happen. I write also because I want to remember. For me, this is a way of preserving the essence of my memories in a sort of time capsule. I don't write so that I can up something up on my website and be proud about it. I write because I need to. Because I want to. The website just came as an afterthought. So to those who have chanced upon this little niche of mine, this is a page of myself, and you are given the unique opportunity to take a peek into my mind and into my world.