When you put your words on paper
Are you writing a poem or just data
Do you consider that someone is reading
Exposing your heart as it is bleeding

When you put the words down
Are you aware that they make us frown
Is a few lines even a stanza of verse
Or just a query perverse

Why write a poem at all
When your words just fall
Off the page in a rush
Without causing us to hush.

So many words used
Think poetry is abused
Blog if you must
Dont use our trust

Why write a poem
If all you want is
To vent a feeling in
A few words or many.

Oh thats right
Thats why you write a poem...

Alison Smith

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-write-a-poem/