Writing poetry is more than just writing a few lines of text and hoping for the best. It is about having rhythm, excellent word choice, and emotion in your writing.
Too much thinking isn't a good thing! When it comes to writing poetry I have met plenty of people who spend it thinking and not writing, or writing and not wanting to tell anybody about it for fear of people laughing at them. Get over it.
This is a poem that I penned to try to explain to people who do not know me, why I do what I do. Why I bother to take the time to write something that most people have no interest in reading. This is why I write.