my ELA teacher last year and a teacher a year up had an open mic day for kids who were working on poems. I was not one of the kids that got to do it but that night I emailed my ELA teacher and asked for websites that could teach me about everything. all kinds of poetry. I've always been the kid who asks people if they need help but when I'm the one in need, nobody wants to help me. so the poems were a way I could cope with my life. my parents were and still are never around. my 19 y/o sister has always taken care of me. she's the one who saved me. poetry is a way I cope with the life I have. poems are all I have to help me feel. I never thought i'd put them out in the world because they aren't that good but I realized that it's not about if they are good or bad but it's about what the poems make people feel and how they can cope with them too. so I'm willing to share my poems if they help people feel something.