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I only like stories that sound like mine When I get on YouTube I only listen to poems that sound like sadness like an old door hinge creaking  If the poem is about a curtain closing or heavy hearts lifting into the sky and becoming stars It's the only poem I want to hear  it's all I want to write cause nothing comes easier than listening to hearts that hurt like mine  They tell me not to take the phrase "spilling blood on the stage"  so literally  But here I am  Here we are peeking from behind closed curtains  We are as unhinged as the old door that creaks We have to write about it we have to keep writing about it! didn't I tell you the curtain is closing  And pretty soon heavy hearts will sink  No time for trying to fix doors that were never broken in the first place! What's the point in the poetry if we were all just lonley? Just a voice with no volume Why do you write?  Cause someone told me I wasn't important!   Cause poetry is my pick me up! And I have dared to keep writing, so that I can offer to people what i've been searching for my whole life Clousure Courage and contemplation Am I less of a poet than the girl whose poems sound like singing and look like sunshine? What kind of door do real poets walk through Isn't all this subjective anyway? The point is the poetry not the points ? But then what are the points for? Should I feel fake? Feel fraud I know why I'm here But am I qualified? Am i just another story not worth decoding? Not worth opening? It doesn't matter anyway, for me poetry alwaysjust meant standing up for what you believe in Even if... I'm the only one standing