POETRY

MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT I HAVE WRITTEN POETRY IN MY LIFETIME.  BACK WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BUCK, I WROTE POETRY QUITE FREQUENTLY.  HOPELESS ROMANTIC THAT I WAS, IT WAS USUALLY LOVE POEMS.  SURE, I WROTE ABOUT OTHER THINGS.  MANY OF MY POEMS WERE ABOUT LIFE EXPERIENCES, AND CONSISTED OF ROMANTICIZED LANGUAGE, AS WELL AS, PLAIN ENGLISH OR SLANG.  THE USE OF THE WORDING COINCIDED WITH HOW I FELT.  SOMETIMES, THE POEMS WEREN'T POEMS AT ALL, BUT THOUGHTS OR RAMBLINGS.  SO THEN, I GOT IT INTO MY HEAD, THAT MAYBE I AM A WRITER...NAH, I JUST LIKE WORDS.  POETRY, HOWEVER, HAD REMAINED A CONSTANT IN ME EVER SINCE JUNIOR HIGH AND THE MOVIE DEAD POETS SOCIETY.  I ALSO, FEEL LIKE IT'S A BASIS, FOR WHY I WRITE RHYMES FOR HIP HOP SONGS FROM TIME TO TIME. 

NOW, I HAVEN'T WRITTEN ANY POEMS IN QUITE SOME TIME.  I GAVE IT UP.  THE REASON YOU SAY?  IT HAD CREATED A DARK CLOUD, AND GIVEN ME NOTHING. BUT, BAD LUCK.  MAYBE, IT WAS THE LOVE POEMS THAT WERE CAUSING THE TURMOIL.  I DON'T KNOW, TO BE HONEST.  IT HASN'T NECESSARILY RUINED MY LIFE, JUST RELATIONSHIPS.  WHENEVER, I HAD INTRODUCED POETRY IN ANY PARTICULAR RELATIONSHIP, THE RESULTS ALWAYS ENDED IN A SPLIT.  OF COURSE, THIS WAS ALL FIGURED OUT IN HINDSIGHT.  IT'S BEEN THE ONE THING, THAT I REMEMBER DOING.  SO, I STOPPED WRITING LOVE POEMS DIRECTLY TO WOMEN, AND STILL, THE SAME RESULTS.  SO I STOPPED WRITING THEM ALL TOGETHER.  I DID THIS AS A PRECAUTION, BECAUSE, I DIDN'T WANT TO RUIN EVERY RELATIONSHIP I'M EVER IN.

I SUPPOSE IT WAS THE FACT, THAT, I HAD OPENED MY SOUL TO SOMEONE AND THAT HAD EITHER MADE ME SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY, OR MADE THEM SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY.  POETRY IS TRICKY.  IT COMES OFF AS HARMLESS AND EVEN PLAYFUL, BUT CAN EASILY BECOME A SERIOUS PLUNGE INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF WHO YOU ARE.  YEAH, PEOPLE DO POETRY SLAMS, AND RECITE SHIT AT OPEN MICS, AND EVERYBODY FINGER SNAPS AND SAYS, "COOL, COOL".  HOWEVER, TRUE POETS KNOW, THIS SHIT IS SERIOUS.  IT IS MORE THAN JUST A FORMATION OF THOUGHT, PUT TOGETHER IN A CLEVER WAY, AND WRITTEN OR RECITED.  IT IS AN EVACUATION OF THE SOUL.  THERE IS A PIECE OF WHO YOU REALLY ARE, THAT IS TORN FROM WITHIN AND SLAPPED ON A PAGE AND THEN DISPLAYED.  I WROTE POEMS, AND EVEN SAVED THEM, BUT EVENTUALLY THREW THEM AWAY, BECAUSE, IT HAD SCARED ME THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH POWER IN THE WORDS OF THESE POEMS.  POETRY, IS A LOST FORM.  REAL, POETRY.  IT IS SACRED, AND IS THE SOURCE OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH.  IT HAS CURSED ME BEFORE.  SO, LET THIS BE A WARNING, TAKE HEED AND TREAD LIGHTLY.   -  925