Formatting suggestion: use shift+Return (only works with a real keyboard, alas) to add line breaks without starting a new paragraph (that Medium usually formats with extra leading, thereby FUBARing your careful visual groupings). See this piece for an example.

Seriously? First poem? How did you make it through your teenage years without committing your existential angst to paper in free verse, bad rhymes, or sonnets?

Keep going, I know you’ll do fine.