Hello,

I am a seventeen-year-old who is graduating from high school. I love to write, especially poetry, and have been doing so since the ninth grade when I found out I had a talent for writing. I'm very creative and very emotional, plus I virtually think in metaphors, so my poems are chalk full of all kinds of suff. I don't really think most of my poems are all that great, but whenever I show my poetry to someone, I pretty much always get the same answer: "That's deep". I don't think so. To me, it's just grasping for something that's always out of reach, yet always with me in my head, my heart, and my soul.
The handful of teachers I'm closer to say I'm "wise", but I just think it's common sense and practicallity. I've had to travel quite a bit of rocky road in my short time alive, which is one reason I love helping other people with their problems.
I'm an atheist, although I don't care much for the word, and am very slowly developing my own system of spirituality. I think that religion, which I've study nearly every one there is in existence today, is a diluted form of spirituallity. Religion restricts a person to a certain degree, where pure spirituallity allows for freedom and development of morals more unique to the individual. I've seen the world through the lense of Buddhism, Christianity, Shinto, Native American 'religion', and atheism. I feel that of all the current religions, the Native Americans got it the closest, and damn close it is.
Anyway, I love to write (obviously), watch anime, listen to almost every kind of music (especially country), go cycling, play Go (an ancient board game from Asia), study history, and I really love Japan.

Other than that, I that's pretty much me, off the top of my head...

And, to all the poets on this site and in the world: thank you for the inspiration that I have recieved and will recieve, and I wish you all the best.