A couple of years ago, I didn't know much about poetry. 

I didn't even like it. 

I thought that it was the lowest form of story telling. 

It was only when I started writing my own poetry that I realized that I was foolish for thinking that way. 

It was no longer than four months ago when I decided to spill my guts in a poem.

I wasn't good at poetry, but that didn't matter, no one was gonna see it. 

I revealed alot about myself in this specifgic poem. 

My fears. 

My insecurities. 

My shame. 

Everything I didn't like about myself. 

It was all revealed inside that poem. 

It wasn't long before I was completely done with the poem. 

It was three pages long, and incredibly eloquent with its description of me. 

I was proud of it. 

Extremely proud. 

I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of me. 

Almost like everything I didn't like about myself was taken away while I wrote the poem. 

I was so proud of myself that I began to recite my poem to no in perticular. 

As I read my poem, and I actually lisened to my own words, I gradually began to lose my sense of pride. 

After I was done doing my private recital, I burned my poem. 

Burned it till it was completely gone from this planet. 

I regretted writing the poem, for when I read it, it made my hate myself. 

The poem showed me all the less than charitable things about me. 

And somehow, it showed me even more flaws than I thought I had. 

I can't even explain how this happend. 

Reading my own work, just made me despise my flaws even more. 

I swore to myself that I would stop writing poetry. 

Obviously, and thankfully, I didn't live up to that. 

I still write poetry. 

And I absoluetly love it. 

I use it for many things. 

I use to describe myself. 

I use it to describe my life. 

I use it to describe how I feel about other people. 

And I use it to make changes to myself. 

I've learned that poetry, like all forms of writing, is a beautiful thing. 

It could help you express yourself in many ways. 

It could even teach you some things about yourself. 

Whether you like those things or not.