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.
