Making a difference...

I think poems do make some difference because they describe how u feel. I read poems on hear about people who get beaten up by there fathers and then raped. My father used to beat up my mother before they divorced but he's never touched me. He has skitzofrenia and anxiety so i'm looking after him rather than the other way around. My grandfather on the other hand sexually assulted me and dad still talks to him. Reading poems on here has made me realise that i do have it lucky. My dad was an alcoholic but he isnt anymore. hes just sick. and he can't help it. Peoples poems have helped me see it differently as ive realised that it isnt my fault hes like that and I dont hav 2 take responibility. These people who get beaten up and raped by alcoholic dads dont have a handle on the situation but i do. I've since moved in with mum whos fit to b a parent but I still see dad. I've taken the pressure of me, something they couldn't do. I'm not recovering from Anorexia, Bulemia and servere depression while handling ADD (I didnt know I had it until recently). The poems on here has helped me open my eyes to the fact that there is always someone worse off than you and you shouldnt prepare for the worst until youve looked at all possible solutions. The way I saw it is that they can't make there life better, there living hell because someone else is being put though it, im putting myself through it to give someone else a daughter and full time carer. I was taking advantage of everything that I could have, things they'd dream of having.

Your right, music does it better, but thats what makes a good poet. with music you have tone as well as words to get emotion across and put the reader/listener in your shoes/relate to the reader/listener. With poetry you only have words. You have to use your words to tell your story. Which is what I tihnk poetry is about. You see, if you write a poem to suit everyone, nobody will like it because it will b all over the place. But if you write one for you, everyone will like it because it is precise, you can portray the message using metaphors, similes etc.....(ie. without openly saying it and putting the reader down as an idiot) which attracts the reader as even if they cant personally relate to what your telling them, your still telling them a story and everyone likes stories. To truly change someone with a poem though you have to be a fantastic writer as the poem has to memorable. To have an influence on the way some one lives there life your poem has to touch them which means it has to give out a message that is a useful life skill, whether it be a new one of revamping an old one. And you have to do it in an interesting way (a way that stands out from other poems and well, stands out from means of learning the lesson) which is incredibly hard to do with words on its own, hence the reason it doesn't happen very often...which can lead to the belief that it doesnt happen at all.

:) XOXO
Freddie.