Poetry is one of the most beautiful forms of writing. Maybe people like reading it while others might not. Even though I've wanted to be a writer since I was 7 years old, poetry has influenced my life greatly as well. I didn’t think I was a poet until I took a creative writing class during my senior year of high school.

Before I started writing poetry, I didn’t understand the point of poetry because I thought poetry was boring and all about rhyming. When I wrote my first poem, I thought it was terrible and it wasn’t until my second poetry assignment, that I finally realized how important poetry could be to me. I didn’t expect to become a poet at all. I assumed I was going to be bad at writing poetry. After I wrote a few poems, I didn’t know there was a poet inside me, but I continued to write and get better. With this new found confidence, I thought I would share my first ever poem.

As far as I can tell,

in a dark hallway,

wondering what’s behind a closed door.

We will be training together

scuffing the floor,

out of place,

challenges like that seem common.

I already feel colder.

The blue light,

at the end,

making glow.

Our numbers

begin to dwindle.

His fingers

brush my neck.

My body tenses.

I follow his words.

My thoughts are going haywire.

Sweaty palms.

Racing heart.

Tightness in my chest.

Dry mouth.

A lump in my throat.

Difficulty breathing.

His eyes are

the last thing I see.

I ended up loving to write poetry as I began to write more, and I ended up writing thirty poems in that year alone. This is when I decided to write books and poems for a living. I enjoy writing poetry because not every poem has to have a rhyme, and not every poem has to be short or long. I still write poetry to this day, but I always have trouble finding inspiration for my poems. But, I know it will come to me when it truly counts, when it truly matters.