Poetry

is

therapy.

Started writing

as a child

too young to

vocalize

why.

Still don't know why,

just felt the needless push

of words

cramming out of me

had to

pour them

with the rest of that

silence.

Everything

in this life

is set up

to teach us

how to

love.

If we

could

just

conform to it,

live by all of

the cliches:

in the moment,

holding everything

for all its worth

then feeling free

to let it go,

knowing one has

never taken

anything

for granted;

acceptance is easy

with no guilt.

We would be

happy.

We would die

smiling.