Modern Day Poets

I came upon this website where people can submit their own poetry and browse through other poems and read or critique and what not. It's quite lovely to get a taste of poetry that people are writing right now. I always read books of poetry from people that are either dead or old and the only time I get to read things that are being written now, is when my friends post something on their blog or Facebook. So being on this website is super cool because people are always posting new work. (Random side note, I have read many poems on that site by poets between the ages of 13 and 16 that are so beautifully written and have so much raw emotion, pain, love, beauty. It's insane. Initially my thought was, wow these kids are so young and they are writing all this crazy stuff... But apparently I had forgotten the things I felt when I was that age... Not like it was that long ago... but still... Just kinda funny what I forget until I sit down and think about it.)
Anyway, just read this right now... and I like it, I think. I don't like all of it. I like the beginning, middle, and end, but not the in betweens. Haha

People in the Rain
by Ahmad Cox

The night closes in
There are people out in the rain
People lost in the cold
There are people who don't really have a place
That they can really be
Trapped in themselves
Lost to the world
Not really knowing
How to connect to everyone else
Not really knowing
How to make sense
Of this crazy world that we take to be normal
There are people out there
Who don't know how to feel
They have gotten so used to being numb
Doing everything they can to remove the pain
The pain of the present
The pain of the past
The pain that memories bring
And the pain of knowing that what they are doing
To ease the pain
To stay numb
To get a little moment's peace
They will do whatever it takes
Even it means killing themselves
But often they don't care
They have gotten so far down
So far lost
That they feel like they deserve it
Like they can't do better
People can start to feel like their lives are one big track
That just keeps going around and around
Never really moving
Just continuing the same cycle again and again
But we are all lost in our own ways
Lost to the cold
Lost in the night
We all have our moments
When it feels like the night is closing in
When we feel like we are better off
If we just don't feel at all
If it would be better
If we made ourselves apathetic
So that way we wouldn't really have to feel the pain
Feeling others
And actually caring for someone other then ourselves
Having love and compassion in our hearts
It's hard sometimes
To open up ourselves
And to let go
It can be even harder
To open yourself up
To feel all of the emotions
That we all feel
Whether it be joy
Pain
Sorrow
Peace
Whether we laugh
Or whether we cry
It's hard sometimes to allow ourselves to be present in what we are feeling
We all want to avoid pain in our lives
But if you spend your life running from yourself
Running from people
Running from the pain
And living in the night
Hurting and destroying yourself
And the people around you
Ultimately you will find yourself alone