Is that you can’t be jealous of other people’s work. You can’t kick yourself and say, “Why didn’t I think of that?!” Just smile and appreciate the beautiful and clever way that someone put those words together. Know that if you keep writing, you will get better, and you will write something just as clever. Feed off other people’s brilliance. Let it inspire your work. Strive to be original. It’s getting harder it seems, but everyday I hear something that only a poet could have dreamed of. Words that are carefully weaved together to form new metaphors, similes, analogies. Something that takes my breath away. I thank God for my gift and pray that if I don’t have the ability to take someone’s breath away, that I can make them think. And think of Him in particular.

This is what happens when you try to plan a poetry slam/event and use that as an excuse to watch poetry videos.

:) Goodnight.