Why Write

Entry 6 💌

I think the first and last time I had wrote poetry prior to my first book The Edge of Both Sides was in 6th or 7th grade, but it was something that always stuck with me. I could alway recall the feelings I felt as I read what I wrote and the inspiration behind them. Of course at that time, life happened and I never wrote another poem again until years later.

But it was weird, I always missed the feeling of writing but at the same time I somehow thought poetry was meant to be full of life, like an invisible smile or  warmth from the sun. As I mentioned though, life happened and those were not things I was capable of writing about.

As the years came and went I found a different hobby in sports to focus on. It was amazing at times but as I look back at it now, it never fulfilled me mentally. Although I felt, it gave me the same release as writing once did. There were still many moments when I would recall the poems I previously wrote. At the time though I never understood why I held onto those poems so often and dearly, but if I had to be honest, it was the last time where expressing myself didn’t cause any harm to others or regret.Even now when I write I tread carefully about the way I phrase certain lines or even simply changing the entire poem itself to reflect a third or second person perspective instead.

Fast foward, life has started slowing down and instead of needing something to fulfill me mentally, I was focused instead on finding something I could truly be passionate about regardless of where I found myself at in life. I grabbed a notebook and wrote a list of hobbies I quite enjoyed throughout growing up:

-Playing the piano

-Writing Poetry

-Singing (not sure where I was going with this one)

-Learning different languages

-Traveling

So I asked for a keyboard for christmas, I found a different language to learn, did karaoke often (for fun of course), planned a trip to Japan and finally wrote my first line. Here’s how it went:

“The act of living life,

Why is it that the opposition of something is better than compromise?”