It was 4th grade in Beloit,Wisconsin it was like love at first sight like you knew how to get my words out without me having to say it you was there for me when I didn't know how to be there for myself. I know Jose was my first love but dang it's something about that feeling when I first touched that paper and blue pen. I was never good with speaking but I was good with words and I was always shy but see poetry made me come out to the light and if it wasn't for you I don't think I'd know how to get my feelings through to my old lovers that I wrote love poems for or for my future lovers that ain't wrote poetry for yet I am a floetry loving poetry spitting type of sista now that poetry and I have found each other's way back to balance and greatness. I started writing because I felt like someone was listening to me. In a family full of secrets it's only so long that you can keep them and it's only so much can go on in a house whole without someone spilling the beans to the outside world that would soon be judging us for our sins that we have committed but there poetry was keeping all of my secrets and only letting them out if I told em so I am a care free black women more now because of poetry and I can tell my mother how much I love her but at the same time how she's hurt me now because of poetry. See I thought that I was all on my own see I thought that a black child was supposed to feel  abandoninment  and keep quiet at a young age but poetry told me other wise.  I write because I know now that I am creative and my third eye starting to blink and I'm just trying to spread my knowledge to the world to hear. It's funny because I'm only a fan of the idea of love I would of never thought poetry would of saved me.