Poetry From One to Seven Billion

by Jackie Alcoran

Poetry is love

Poetry is life

A poem to show your love

For love is your life

 

Poetry is wisdom

Learn how the world is seen

through someone else’s eyes

Poetry is emotion

Disperse of frustration and happiness shall seep

from the inner lines of a true poem

 

Poetry is a story

Carved from the imperfect crevices

of the bumpy road you have trecked on

 

Your life is the staggering road of traps and cheats

Your love is your world that revolves all around you

 

Your wisdom is the knowledge you have learned

from your world and the bleeding cracks in the road

 

Your emotions are what push you over the edge

when the road seems to stop

and you don’t know where else to go

When you look at your hands you feel sad,

because the spaces between your fingers

are right where theirs’ fit perfectly

 

Your story is your life

You are the author

You tell the world how you feel

Before life sends you scrambling to fit in another

piece of this unfinished puzzle