The influence
Whispers of correlation
“others feel exactly what you’re going through”,
Vulnerability on paper without hesitation
Speaking the truth as if they are living life with you
Poets and Poetry
Taught me that no human exist in perfect symmetry
Words filled with emotions and flows of energy spilling into melodic harmony
Speaking to me like the pitter patter of a symphony
Connecting to a stranger
Finding comfort in being a little bit broken
All with just the start of words, pen, and paper
Causing something within me to be awoken
Reading between the lines said what no one else has said
Taught me to respect and embrace my inner being and all the complexities within my head
Reading taught me to rise up again, no matter what tries to hinder you
Which is all thanks to poets like Maya Angelou
The metrical assortment of words into an intrinsic rhythm taught me…creativity
To express myself intuitively
Mixing and mingling the words I know
To show feelings from within that sensate a fiery glow
The harmonic tempo of the expression of emotion and insight teaches me
To turn lemons into lemonade
To take everything I am handed and to turn it into a piece of art I made
Into something original and peculiar, inherently a part of me
Show a part of me that is not so easy to see
Full of complexity and vulnerability
Spilling it from the tip of my tongue to the pages of a thin piece of paper
Resulting in the feeling of being free, a warmness that will not Taper
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