A Connection Stronger Than WI-FI

          As a young boy song lyrics/poetry were very important to me. I was never good with words. I never wanted to talk to people it seemed, and if anyone tried to talk to me they would probably only get a one word answer. Conversations with other kids never lasted longer than five minutes. I couldn't talk at all. After a while nobody even tried to talk to me because I just didn't know what to say. I couldn't find the right words to say to them so, I didn't say anything. The songs I listened to helped me to speak. I started to look up the lyrics from my favourite songs and see how the artists used those words, and how they made people feel a certain way by just painting a picture with them. I find it amazing how lyrics can make people feel angry, happy, sad, or any of the other emotions. I also find it interesting what sort of music people listen to while they are happy or sad. Poetry to me is just expressing an emotion through writing and trying to connect with other writers or people reading your words. When people write poems or lyrics they try to make the reader feel a certain way, or think about a certain situation that has happened to them. Connection is what is so powerful behind the words in music and poetry. Poetry is important for all people because without that connection with others, it is hard to understand the world. I have learned so much from listening to music 24/7 and reading the lyrics to songs, as well as writing my own poems. It has taught me that the most important tool we have in life is the ability to speak, connect, and just be ourselves. Write the words that you feel inside you, whether it be one or one million. As long as it's true to you and what you believe, you will find a connection that is hard to ignore (and stronger than any WI-FI connection). I believe everyone can be a poet because everyone has a story that can be told in a unique way only to the person telling it. For me, I still find it hard finding the right words to use for poems, or blog posts, but I write down what I feel and what I believe. I believe that any written works that people have done that bring connection to people around the world is poetry. It doesn't have to be a poem, or a song. Just words that bring feelings to you and others.