My first poem

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Somebody told me I should try to write poems to express myself, since I usually just f**k it up if I try to express my feelings verbally. So here it is, an open letter to my wife. It may sound weird, but focusing on finding matching words that rhyme does make it easier to "forget" about the emotions of the actual message that usually trip me up.

I am a novel you will never be able to read.
The cover unscratched, the pages are clean.
The font is quite small and the words just don't seem right,
but if you just let me start I could read to you all night.
"Don't judge a book by it's cover" - truer words have never been said.
On the cover is just a picture of me laying in bed.
My face is cold, expressionless.
My soul unable to coalesce.
But open the book and you will see
an epic battle inside of me.
My logical brain attests: "This can not be so"
and my heart screams back "Just let me go!"
Logic prevails, and I remain so cold.
I push you away, leave me alone.
You ask if all is well.
I scream at you to go to hell.
I wish you could comprehend
The worlds that exist within my head.

This world of yours is so bright and loud,
and I can never blend in to the crowd.
These pages, however, are all in order,
black and white, except for her.
When we reach your role in this tale,
the words suddenly change to braille.

You see when it comes to love, I am blind.
The words I can feel, but translation declined.
I understand we are forever entwined,
and I am desperately searching my mind
hoping to find any way out from behind these undefined lines.

This novel is written in a code nobody can crack.
The character within it is always under attack.
The only way to save him is for somebody to read,
but the novel is unreadable, even by me.

I wish I could tell you how I can't live without you.
I wish I could stand to even be around you.
I wish I could tell you how much I love you.
I wish I could love you.

i have never been much interested in poetry.
i would like to know why many people are interested in poetry.

sometimes i think of "rhymes".
maybe the instinct is similar.

I never was either, but it was suggested to me to give it a shot to try to learn to express myself and it was actually nice. I am terrible at displaying emotions (didn't even smile when my son was born), and searching for rhymes was sort of like completing a puzzle. A puzzle where the completed project is an open window into what I am feeling, since it's impossible for me to say them out loud. Showing it to her, however, is a different story - but it feels good to get it out!

i hope other people reply to your thread.
i suppose your poem is good, but i cannot see how.

other people will take over soon and reply to you when they wake up, and you will be relieved.
bye.

I think I can understand in a lot of ways. To a degree anyhow. Never been married or even dated as getting that socially entwined with someone is like trying to stick a magnate on a piece of wood and expecting it to stay. I write a lot of poetry. Its an escape mechanism. Its also my form of art. You don't have to rhyme when you write poetry its a common misunderstanding of the art. The metaphors and images you create with your words are what bring life to poetry.

As for it being popular today I find that to be off. Its hard finding people interested in poetry as they are more interested in melting their minds with pop shows and mingling their distorted ideas about imaginary characters screwed up lives such as the evil that is is Snooki lol. Keep writing and let your heart sing its imprisoned thoughts and expressions. Give wings to the confined emotions that exist in an empty plain and envelope the passions that drive you in the velvet ribbons of enigma to spark interest into the Neanderthals transparent thoughts. Be free in the world you create and perhaps the joy you find their will entice plebeians to transcend their complacent thoughts.