They said, "you're not a poet"
"You don't write about love"
"About beauty and harmony"
"You should write with a quality of light"
I replied, "what about the pain"
"The torment within the soul"
"The expression to feel rejected"
"For l see light through darkness"
They said, "You have no meter"
"Your words lack any rhyme"
"You should write with rhythm"
"That is what poetry is about"
I replied, "I am a reflection"
"I can not be anything else"
"My words come from my mind"
"For my poetry is about.......me"
Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 3:53 PM UTC
They said, "you're not a poet"
"You don't write about love"
"About beauty and harmony"
"You should write with a quality of light"
I replied, "what about the pain"
"The torment within the soul"
"The expression to feel rejected"
"For l see light through darkness"
They said, "You have no meter"
"Your words lack any rhyme"
"You should write with rhythm"
"That is what poetry is about"
I replied, "I am a reflection"
"I can not be anything else"
"My words come from my mind"
"For my poetry is about.......me"
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