Thousands on Twitter have been sharing this creative poem that should be read backward

Thousands of people around the world are sharing images of a creative poem after a British man shared it on Twitter in July. The reason? The poem has two totally different meanings depending on where you start to read it.

The poem started making its way around the internet after a man tweeted a photo of the poem tacked up in a bar in North London, Mashable reported. It has since been retweeted thousands of times on Twitter and viewed by over 1.4 million people on Imgur.

Here's a look at the poem in the original tweet:

—Ronnie Joice (@ronniejoice) July 22, 2015

If you read the poem starting with the first line, the poem begins with, "Today was the worst day ever," and goes downhill from there. But if you start with the final line and read up to the top, the meaning reverses, becoming full of positive mantras.

Written by a New York high-school student, Chanie Gorkin, the poem was entered in a contest last year, but didn't become popular online until this summer, CBS reported. "It comes from Hasidic philosophy, which I learn daily and try to take to heart, so I try my best to live what I wrote," Gorkin told CBS.

This isn't the first time reversible poetry has swept the internet. A similar poem went viral in February 2014.

—Derek Nichols (@DerekNichols0) February 26, 2014