Poetry Made Me Feel Whole

Stared at two passionate lines for the longest time! What I wrote…as if in a trance, is this a verse? Tears fell, one after another… Every drop, every translucent pearl of grief Long encased in a shell of hope and disappointment... I was rapt with a feeling of purification, This was my holy place, a poem was my offering! A wrong decision in youth caused insurmountable uphill struggle, Shutting my eyes, clenching my fist, hushing my voice! Finally a drizzle of rain from heaven quenching my starving lyrical soul, Phoenix rising from the ashes, this is Me! My creativity was back, negativity disappeared in a mist, There is unselfish love in this world, there is miraculous compassion Expressing myself in rhymes made sense to me, Poetry made me feel whole.... Days are gone when I felt despondent and trivial, Drowning in verses, found my catharsis - an existence significativa!