Why I write poems

Here is the simplest reason
On why I write poems.
And it is thus.
For sometimes,
Quite so often as of late
I want to get my thoughts out
And words
Get in the way
For my thoughts
Don't arrange themselves
In words lines and paragraphs
In neat little phrases organized
For proper reading
They come to me
In bits and pieces
All often disjointed
Ready to jump,
Into reality.

And because the words
Don't come out
As fast as the thoughts flow,
Constipation.

Which is why
Despite being
A skeptic shall we say
Of the poetic form
I write poetry.

For it is
The quickest way
For my thoughts
To get
Into yours.