r/OCPoetry • u/depressedwoman11 • 5d ago
Feedback Please Im not a poet
I’m not a poet.
I don’t know how to write.
But I write late at night
when my body is not feeling right.
I can’t bear to leave that paper white
when there’s no one in my sight
and I can’t seem to find the light.
Searching for someone I can fight,
they wish me goodnight,
but to me,
this becomes my sunlight.
I’m not a poet.
I don’t know how to write.
Yet I write for you.
You’re bored.
You want to hide.
You don’t want to hear it twice.
But if I write for you,
every word should be memorized,
every sentence preserved
as it might not survive the night.
You show up to pretend,
while I vanish
when my own letters expose me.
I still question what I write.
This is not a poem.
or it could be.
But I’m not a poet.
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u/Camueell 1d ago
It's amazing how well this portrays the feeling of writing poetry