How poetry adds perspective
“Poetry is a commitment to the soul.” – Gaston Bachelard I was 14 when I started writing poems. For some reason, secretly, I wanted to find that quality about myself. It was a way to cope with low self-esteem, so it became an outlet for daydreams. I struggled with speech impediment and depression so the written word was a place to spread my mind. Writing and drawing were therapeutic because it helped unveil my own voice. I'm still unlayering the folds, but every once in a while I know that I've found something through my audience. Eventually, I realized poetry is a way of being in the world, noticing a self-sufficient beauty that lives beyond "me." Poetry is an exploration of where "I" begins and ends. Poetry can be narrow as a…