Poetry is that one excuse for me to say things aloud, (at times, only to the piece of paper or the blank screen) that I couldn't have, in another conversation with another person, or maybe even with myself. Reading poetry reminds me of things I may have thought about and left midway, long ago, maybe because I didn't dare go beyond that point, besides numerous other reasons. The interpretations are perhaps the most interesting aspect of it - I end up interpreting my own compositions in newer ways, when I come back to them weeks later. It's almost like a form of meditation for me because when I ponder and write, I am amazed at how a fifteen minute scribbling exercise alters the way I see the world, almost like discovering a new colour, as it were. Poetry is simply, gazing with love at those corners of life, things, people and ourselves, that sunlight is often unable to reach.