Poetry is

Past present future

Was

Will be

Past present future

As some one with few talents

Poetry is my

Past present future

 

Past

A little girl

Alone

Broken heart

Broken will

And a body that doesn't fit.

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A little girl 

Able bodied

Broken home

And a mind that doesn't work.

A little girl

Not girl

She's not what you want

What I am,

Who I am,

Who am I?

A little girl

Daddy isn't home

Mommy's at work

Grandma can't breathe

Cousin's can't stay clean

Asking Pop for money he doesn't have.

A little girl

Hiding in a closet

Reading a dictionary

Sissy stole from the school

Its the only book we had

A little girl 

Too scared to speak

Because the only thing

Words got her in school

Was a beating

A little girl

Alone on the swings with a notebook

A little girl

No friend in sight

But a smile because when everyone else left her

The words are there

 

Present

That little girl

Not little girl

Teenage boy

Too scared to piss in school

Because his body doesn't match

A teenage boy

Can't have a relationship

Because everyone chalks him up as a lesbian

Teenage boy

Failing grades

And his lungs don't work

Teenage boy

Chalking up for his sixth suicide attempt

in the same amount of years

Teenage boy

Only love 

A notebook

Meter

And a couple old dead guys

Teenage boy

Only friend 

The English teacher

Who taught him verse

 

Future

A man

Chest flat

Home built

Honey at his side

Man

Poetry drips like honey 

From his tongue

Because he can finally speak

A notebook

A little girl

A little girl 

Not girl

Boy

Teenage boy

Man

Who I am

Who am I?

A poet

The poet

In a world of poets

Romantics

Home of homes

In a notebook

Tattered and torn

Home

Words and phrases

Man

To awkward

He can only manage 

To speak in short sentences

A man

Poems

His only way of speech

Poetry

His only love

A man

A broken heart

A filled notebook

And his lungs don't work