For Addilyn

I have created, spoken, written, delivered, made poetry for as long as I can remember.
My entire life, since I learned to write I have loved creating poetry.
I have written my favorite teddy bear and how much I love my mom type poems
I have written new love and lost love type poems
I have written about writing type poems
I have written about race type poems
Political type poems, Shit that will get you hype type poems
I have written tragedy and true crime type poems
I have written fantasy and Lord of the Rings type poems
I have written fiction and non fiction, honesty and lies
Love and Lust and what it looks like in disguise type poems
Trees and flowers and birds in the sky type poems
I have written terrible poems
Ugly poems, inaccurate poems
Grateful that I know him poems
Wish I could forget him poems
Regretting that I let him poems
Make believe that you won’t believe and how could he type poems
I have written about religion, My Father and my brothers
Bullies and why can’t we all love one another type poems
I have written what it’s like to be a girl type poems
Not sure I understand that one still type poems
I have written poems about poems, poems about poets
Poems about know it alls, poems about throwing it all away
And redeeming yourself another day type poems
Poems about wanderlust and travelling
Poems about sanity unraveling
I have written poems about the sunrise and sunset
And although most of my poems are private,
A few have been shared and received compliments.
Some may have even moved people or broadened someone’s perspective
Opened their mind, maybe opened their heart.
Some have made statements, some have made others laugh
Some I wish I could take back.
But nothing, NOTHING, I have ever created, written, spoken, or delivered
Can compare to the dark haired, gray eyed, 5 pound 10 ounce baby girl that I somehow…made.
And she is by far, the best, most beautiful, most honest and telling poem I have ever written.
And she will tell it over and over again.