what is the point of writing poetry?

[rowens]

I've been told to stop writing poetry many times in my life. That I waste my life reading and writing several hours everyday. Yet when I want to go on a walk or camping in the woods or something else I like, I'm told that's a waste of time too. So I have to cut off relationships with all the people I've known around this town. And I'm stuck here until I can get out of town again, using this computer. I really don't like computers or the Internet.

But again I 'm asked: Why am I on a poetry site? What else is there to do online? Porn and Facebook?