Atkins also recommends looking for a poem about a subject you're passionate about. “I promise you, there’s a poem for everyone,” she says. Next, decide what you want to write about.

I would like the tense of the promise to be the tense of the poem I am dedicating to you, just as soon as I've written it For, as the artist Jerome Caja says in reference to his many friends and ...

I loved you before I was born. It doesn't make sense, I know. I saw your eyes before I had eyes to see. And I've lived longing for your ever look ever since. That longing entered time as this body.