Poetry has the power to illuminate and devour.
To make your heart smile by its rhythm and style.
Poetry can quench a thirst by making your insides burst.
Drowning you in raw emotion in the depths of its ocean.

One way to tell if a poem is written well
is if its metaphors make you see beyond each line of poetry.
Headstrong by your heart won’t comply releasing old tears you once made dry.
You can’t forget that one phrase that touches your soul in omniscient ways.

Poetry goes in for the steal then turns around to help you heal.
Where life gives you definitive defeat poetry revives your heartbeat.
Poetry is residency where you roam turning a house into a home.
The illusion and the reality:

That’s the power of poetry.