**this is me just kinda rambling (please tolerate)**

i've never actually
written poetry before.
(yet none the less here i am telling you
that in verse)

i don't think i ever
really realized that
there was more to writing
then straight lines of text

i always thought poetry was
rhyme the lines because
that how things are
so you mustn't change the rules...of how...they...are...(?)

(what would fit there and rhyme with "are"?)

i didn't know
that breaking text this way
just
emphasized meaning

until i met her.
(her will remain nameless,
you may or may not know
who you are)

i was astounded;
the beauty of her writing struck me.
all i thought was
"i want to write like that"

so here i am today
and i have found a voice
(one of many voices)
(when writing of course)

and i guess that's
cool
i still can't write like her
(but i can try)

and i still enjoy writing
"the straight text"
but i enjoy poetry too
which i couldn't have said

a couple of months ago

so thank you, you
for showing me another
kind of writing
(which is pretty cool)