I truly want to know why people write. Do you write for yourself or for others? Maybe both...Do you write because its a passion or do you write because you just had nothin else to do? Is it truly your soul you put into your poems or just a few words that you wrote down on a piece of paper, that in a few days mean barely anything at all.... Is your emotion in them, can it be felt, or is a poem where you hide yourself in it, buried deep within, waiting to be found, but hardly anyone looks deep enough to truly find you... Do you write because its what you love, or do you write to hear people tell you how great of a writer you are, not really caring to write, just loving the praise... Does it matter what people think, if they love it, hate it, criticize it, praise it, its your work, nobody can ever completely understand the message in your words but you, nobody can search between the lines and know 100%, it shouldn\'t matter what people think, its your work and if you care about what they say, its no longer "original and only yours." I cling to my poetry because its the one thing in life that is assured, it can never be taken from me... This is why I write...my passion and emotion and feelings are in my poetry, and it is my form of release, i do not choose suicide, cutting, fighting, i now choose to write, its the way i let my feelings go, its my therapy you might say... its what keeps me going in life...
I write because...
