Does poetry matter in the 21st century?

If you can fit the right words together in the right order, you can say more than any politician ever could. Poetry can say anything you want it to. It could be something that is only important to you. It could be something that you think the entire world needs to hear.

Anybody can write a poem, but not everybody can write a good poem. But, if you do it just right, it can have an affect on someone. If you can affect enough people, you can make a real difference.

Someday, we are all going to be gone, the world is going to go on without us. When you are gone, do you want people to remember you? Some of the most famous poems are from hundreds of years ago. Do you want people to remember you one hundred years from now? With a good poem, you could change something today, and you could change something hundreds of years from now.

Poetry can express something like nothing else can. Poetry matters in the 21st century, just as it did one thousand years ago, because long after we are gone, we can still make a difference with poetry.