To Write Poetry

Oh Captain, my Captain.
To write poetry is to express,
The world from your eyes.
To carve silence into sound,
To paint the world in syllables,
To give voice to the unsaid.

To write poetry is to inspire,
The spark of creativity.
To strike a match in the dark,
To catch fleeting thoughts like fireflies,
To turn a single word into a universe.

To write poetry is to live,
The moment you so waste.
To gather the seconds others forget,
To breathe life into fading memories,
To find beauty in the breaking.

To write poetry is to know,
The depths of one's mind.
To dive into the ocean of untold thoughts,
To listen to the silence between words,
To understand the self before it is lost.

To write poetry is to believe,
The cruel world still bears kindness.
To stitch light into the fabric of sorrow,
To find warmth in the coldest spaces,
To remind the heart why it beats.

To write poetry is to rebel,
The demons inside.
To break chains made of silence,
To set fire to the walls within,
To challenge the fate written in ink.

To write poetry is to heal,
The scars of time.
To mend what life has shattered,
To let rain cleanse regret,
To find poetry in the scars.
A.V