Conformity, Moulds

I remember being told Since I started joining letters together I was taught to fit them into words, sentences, stanzas or paragraphs Let your creativity flow they said How was i to do so? Just jumble up the words in the voice of another Be anything but elementary Use bigger words, a flowery language Make your writing eloquent and exquisite No one cares what you are writing as long as you're filling pages Your poems should have symmetry And your prose should be lengthy Kudos! You got the highest marks Does it end there? Is this what I perspire for? At what liberty am I to use my creativity If I can't make new words of my own? Why aren't I taught that? Why must I always fit my voice into poetry or prose? Why must my handwriting be cursive and my poems have a rhyme scheme? Why must I always conform to these moulds?