Sometimes I'll read great literature and think: that perhaps, poetry is a theatrical (but necessary) byproduct of our excess emotion— created by broken people who simply feel too much, in too little of a space. From the largest and grandest of stanzas to the petite one-liners, we pour our feelings into words and our words into emotion, and give them the context to take on a brand new meaning. We adorn our anguish in sweet, silken lines, our passion in soft, breathy rhymes; our anger shows in scribbles and taut similes, our joy in the personification of the very things we wish could come alive. From all corners of all nations we grow knowing, quite profoundly, that our feelings are meant to mean something: Poetry is not tissue in our lives to be used and tossed away; rather, poems mark the seasons of ourselves that are to be remembered and enjoyed. Written on notepads and parchment, from wide open spaces to that dingy apartment, our words lie in wait for us so that at our lowest point, our words may help remind us to be *human