Be a poet

Be a poet they said
Bring your dark words to light
Once I let them escape me
Those words became my life

I began seeing darkness
In every corner it seeped
In every picture sorrow
In every crevice it creeped

Edgar Allen wrote it best
From there I struggle to maintain
That dark forms of poetry
Can sometimes be sane

Blinding and beautiful
Both darkness and light
A never ending dance
In a constant gripping fight

The line between so thin
Makes it easy to relate
You cannot have love
Without the smallest of hate

I see darkness everywhere
But I know there is light
Darkness Is easier to explain
Much more beautiful to write

My lovely words describe pain, Misery, and hate
Lets be honest for a second
To this you can relate

Not all poems can be happy
because life isn't this way
You really can't have happiness
Without a taste of pain

Oh Cruel Wolrd!

I really don't know why I used that title, maybe I'm just feeling very Dramatic today. Lord knows I cant set my pen down for five minutes before another poem streams into my head and I have to pick up my mad and write another poem. I feel as if some of my poems may be dramatic, eerie, and sometimes very, very personal. Sometimes it's just a whole bunch of thoughts about others or different situations I have came up with in my mind. I don't think my poems are all that good sometimes though. I've been told they are meaningful and nice but I feel like if I have something left to say maybe I didn't say enough in my writings. I write a lot too, I just don't want to go unheard my whole life because I want people to know, "Hey that girl existed, she actually had a head on her shoulders." My friend always tells me to never have dreams but goals but I feel as if my plan or goal isn't put into action yet, therefore it's a dream. It's always been a dream of mine to become a published author. I've always taken it seriously and study the different types of writings out there from unskilled to highly noted to classical to unknown. I have wasted time reading poorly written stories with millions of bad reviews as a guide of what not to do. I am very critical of my own work and I am very cautious to put anything out there, what can I say I'm my very own mean critic. But I've been thinking lately if these starter writers with many mistakes can put their work out there to be judge (or in my case study) then what makes me so much better? I'm not terrified of criticism I am more scared that I will find out i'm just not good enough to have my dream come true. But hey will never know how can I expect anything to come of my writing if I am too scared to even share it outside of my city. So maybe that will be my next task working on making a dream into a goal.