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Poetry is a part of me that exists outside my mind.

It captures who I am exactly at a moment. There are moments I live in for years, and every night thereafter. Maybe no one will understand a word I write. But poetry is alive. It knows my deepest thoughts, and why I do the things no one graces. If one person somewhere understands, then they are in me and I am in them. A poem becomes a community-people sharing the strongest, deepest longing of the soul.

Poetry is often dark, but it is always beautiful. Beautiful because it reveals truth. Beautiful because any emotion so deeply, truly known proves that we are alive. And life, even in its most wretched, depraved state, is man's only glory. Only poetry can give the isolated, the broken and hopeless, the lost, a sense of unity and belonging. A community where a person can fall apart, die inside, scream in pain and search hopelessness - as deep down as that dark cave goes - knowing that though he may travel alone, there are others travelling alone right beside him.

I write because I want to create these worlds, these communities, these sanctuaries-for myself and others. I fellowship with poetry. You can open yourself to a heartcry more than you could ever trust a person. There is such a perfect unity between the song of a poem and a man. It is a marriage so sacred and holy it remains hidden from the world forever.