🌙 Why I Write Poetry

 by Debasish Mondol

I don’t chase poetry—

it finds me, quietly,

like a whisper in the rain.

Sometimes it’s a memory,

sometimes a longing,

sometimes just a single word

from another poet,

like Emily Dickinson,

that opens the floodgates of my heart.

I write because feelings

are too heavy to hold in silence.

I write because some love stories

live only in imagination.

Some heartbreaks need no explanation—

only a line,

a metaphor,

a moonlit stanza

to exist.

When I wrote Fairy in the Rain,

it wasn’t just a poem—

it was a vision:

of beauty dancing in sorrow,

of love blooming in the storm.

Poetry is my language

when ordinary words fail me.

It is how I survive,

how I remember,

how I offer a part of my soul

to the world—

and hope someone says,

“Yes, I’ve felt this too.”