I was once told,
That anything personal is also universal.
I am not alone.
My thoughts and feelings are not new occurrences but have been felt and thought before me.
You share my heart,
those who read my poems.
We can see eye to eye,
and yet we never met.
I read your heart as I read your poems.
and you read mine as you absorb my words.
But when you read my poems,
and if your taken with them,
a piece of your heart understands that I am writing feelings we share.
Not only are they shards of my heart,
but reflections of yours.
I bare my heart for you to see,
but rather than being separated by glass,
I hold your heart as well,
for you to come to realizations,
for you to better understand your self.
This is the purpose of poetry.
So not only is what I write deeply personal,
But humanly universal.