Love Poem: Be My Friend
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Written by: Shahana Jackson

Be My Friend

To all you poets out there 
                  I write this as a simple suggestion
                  So you can turn me down 
                   If you find what I'm asking
                   to be out of your reach

                   But If we as poets can teach
                   through our words  
                   the pain and suffering
                   of thousands in just
                   one stanza 
 
                   Than why can't we 
                    be friends?

                    If we as poets  
                   can mend broken wounds
                with just a pen and a paper
                 and our thoughts 
                 
                   Why can't we mend 
                  hatred, animosity, 
                   and poverty 

                   I accept every poet
                   Regardless of race
                       or face 
                     For all I see when 
                    I look at thee 
                  is another fellow poet
                that means you understand
                 you see through my 
                        kind of lens

                Therefore you are my friend
                  and even though our
                  world isn't quite fixed yet
                  with this pen and paper
                  I will at least try 
                    to bring unity 
                     even if it's just
                     in poetry.