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Being a Poet

Being a poet is not simply being good at writing poems.
It is much more than that.
 
Writing poetry is something that you do.
A poet is something that you are.
 
We see the world not as a bunch of things,
but as thoughts
and
feelings.
 
We find the good and the bad,
beautiful and ugly,
in everything,
and search
for the perfect
balance.
 
When we find something we love, we do not simply love it.
Our minds do not work that way.
 
We tear it apart
and analyze every bit of it,
we immerse ourselves
inside of it
completely,
we clutch it to
our chests
with such force
that it ends up shattering.
 
But not without first leaving it’s imprint in our skin, unable to be erased.
 
But we try anyway, in the only way we know how:
writing.
 
We inject words into our veins to flush out any leftover debris.
We swallow pills of metaphors, to numb the sore places, from holding on too tight.
We drown ourselves in sentences to hide from any form of reality.
 
Yet even after all this,
somehow
we cannot stop ourselves
from continuing the cycle:
 
Love,
Destroy,
Escape,
Love,
Destroy,
Escape,
 
Until everything around us is
shattered to bits
and we’re covered
head to toe
in imprints of things
we once loved,
and we’re
addicted to
pumping words
through our veins,
and we’re
hopelessly hooked
on metaphors,
and we fill
our lungs
with sentences.
 
And that,
is being a poet.
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