When I was a Teenager, I made sense of Life Through Poetry

 When I was a teenager and I needed something to make sense, I wrote it down in a poem.

In 1994, during the Rwanda genocide, I was in school and wrote a story and poem about it, and read it to the class.

When I couldn't stand the behaviour of certain girls in my dormitory, I wrote about them in poetry and some even cried.

When I tried to battle with adolescence, puberty and libidos, I wrote it down in poetry.

When I travelled to a new place as an adult, I wrote about the border, the airport security checks and any new words, I learned in that language.

Poetry, while it used to just about me, and how I felt, until I realised that such potency will never remain in a vacuum.

Poetry is stateless and does not conform. It travels where it wants and settles where it wants.

Bless!

Bev.