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About This Poem
How Poetry Affected My Life
When I was fifteen
Many years ago
I was in a car accident
Which left my right arm paralyzed
I began to get so depressed
I was below anyone’s imagination
I was in pain
Then I finally discovered something
Poetry was in my blood
I wrote and wrote and wrote
Creating many therapeutic poems
It saved my life
And many occasions after that
I wrote to save my heart
And to keep it going
Even after terrible break-ups
And new beginnings
I wrote about the sunrises
And the sunsets
I discovered I have a talent
Of expressing myself
Through poetic words
I fell in love with poetry
It became such an integral part of my life
Not did I just have poetry
But poetry had me
I began to write for other people as well
And saw how it impacted their lives
I saw that I was actually good
At writing
So I continued for many years
And I’m still
Living in its light
Entered Michael J. Falotico's ""How Poetry has become You" contest"
3/4/2013
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