💠Is there a person who has impacted your life in a profound..
Added 2021-11-21 19:47:21 +0000 UTC💠Is there a person who has impacted your life in a profound way? (It can be someone you don't know well, lost contact with, or someone very close to you.) Share with me, in the comments or private dm! 😊
I've written a poem about the person who impacted mine, he was an odd, old man who I've now lost touch with. We shared a few conversations, and he gave me a book that somehow sparked my will to write, and from there I started writing poetry and never looked back. Amazing how a stranger can have such an impact. Here is the poem:
He showed me the world of literature with just one book, he opened up my world to words
Learning to comprise an almost perfect sequence to which they are read
Something I could call my own, yet without this person I may have never known
There lay a desire to make despair and struggle and turn them into something of wonder
Past and present converged into one, the nostalgic presence helps the story unfold
Taking anger, and turning it to passion
And the ideas poured from me like liquid gold
He awoke a fire within me and it spread like wildfire
I fed that fire, even the voluminous tides could not put it out
When the sun goes down, the passing of day produces colors that flash before our eyes
The man in dire suffering dies, longing to be free for so long, finally he flies
The lamp when it shuts off, imagination and it's spetrum of dancing colors come to life in the dark
When the notebook unfolds, and the blank pages are left for mark
Carefully appointed, thought out and repeated
Words, the root of all things sacred
