Poem

When I was 14, my teacher told me that my poem was of Primary School standard.
Then I learned from a friend that in order to write good poem,
you must either have the talent, or you have the right heart.
because poem is not just about putting together beautiful words,
and make them rhymes.
good poem evokes emotion, even if it uses rude and simple or even weird words.

Few years later, I found myself writing better poem.
That friend, the brave little Julius, had passed away by then.
And for several years I thought I was becoming good in this.

But then I met people like Vivy, Iot, and Linda,
and they remind me of the definition of good poem.
They are like my good old friend.

So I realised that I was never too good with poem after all,
though once in a blue moon i felt i write some better ones.
When I got the right heart.

But for the last 2 years.. I have not been able to write anything good.
Because I have also lost the heart.

I can still put together nice words that rhymes, I guess.
But they are just like my Primary School poems.
So they are mostly left in draft folders.