Poems are meant to be understood

Not just read

We poets write

Write until we're dead.

Many of us are born and rise from the hood

Proving to society: we too can do good.

Many of us write what we express

All of our happiness and also our depress'

What you find can be fulfilling

Even if not, we are still giving.

We blacks and latinos do what we could

Because poems are meant to be understood.

—2009, anonymous.


*I did edit the punctuation ONLY with his permission.