Writing for Odyssey has allowed me to expand the topics that I write about. I would never have said a year ago that I would be confident enough to write and share my own original poetry with the world. The thing is, in order to become more confident in your skills, you have to take a leap of faith and trust yourself. So, I'm going to take a leap of faith by sharing my poem, and I'm excited to see how I land.

We

We are

We are all demons wanting to be angels

We are all sinners wanting to be cleansed

We are all villains wanting to be heroes

We are all humans wanting to be gods

Yet

We continue to

We continue to pride ourselves

We continue to have envy

We continue to lie to others

We continue to make mistakes

But

We still hope

We still hope for a better tomorrow

We still hope that we can change

We still hope that we will become better people

We still hope that a heaven is waiting for us when we breathe our last breath

Assume

We only get this

We only get this one life to live

We only get this one chance to have everything we could ever hope for

We only get this life to look forward to and nothing else

Then

We have to fight

We have to fight to better our mistakes

We have to fight to be the greatest version of ourselves

We have to fight to make this the best life we can have

Because

We are all

We are all cursed with humanity

We are all seduced by the devils kiss

We are all subjects of nature's cunning flaws

We are all tricked to eat the forbidden fruit

We are all demons wanting to be angels