Poetry and Art

My recent experiences with art have led me on a very important journey, and I want to be able to share it with you here. The way I look at my artwork, and understand how it can effect other people who come in contact with it has changed completely.

I have been been very involved with art and drawing since I was about 12 years old. Using it to connect with people has always been a goal of mine, but it it hard to do that now days with all of the amazing artists all ready out there. After going through a rough couple weeks not too long ago with my family and myself, I realized there were different ways to look at art more the one way I had for so long. It was at this low point in my life when I wrote down my feelings for the first time. I’ve never been able to speak my feelings (about anything) the way I feel like they should be shared. I’m not good at speaking or with words. Or so I’ve believed...

If you have been in the same spot before, I have something for you to hear.

It was at my lowest low that I discovered how to truly say what I’ve always wanted to communicate with the people around me. After the tears had run dry, and I just felt numb, usually, I’ve always turned to drawing. But this time I decided to speak. I wrote down my feelings in the form of poetry. I wrote them all down, I wrote my way out of that messy situation.

My first poem was very depressing, yet it perfectly described my feelings and my life at the time. This alone felt like a weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. So I kept doing it! I was very discreet with my poems at first, but eventually I started letting people read them. My art teacher said it was amazing, I let other certain people read them, my boyfriend, his mom, friends, etc* It was after letting other people be affected by it that I realized I was connecting with them in the way I wanted. They all said something like, “this is going to make me cry, this hit me so hard, wow." And this is exactly what I was feeling at the time I wrote it and was trying so hard to express!

My art teacher suggested to me that I could combine my two strengths, put art and poetry together. And so I did. And I saw that instead of just making people think deeply about their lives or getting sad, it helped them see the beauty through the pain. My art made the pain expressed in my poetry beautiful.

I just want anyone out there struggling to know that they can express it somehow. You can reach people and help them through expressing your own pain. And everyone is different, everyone will express emotions differently, but that’s a good thing. It makes life so much more intricate and wonderful.

Whether it be to express pain or sadness, happiness or joy, I implore you to use it to reach out to those who need it the most. Because when you help them, you are also helping yourself. And even just a tiny bit of support can bring humanity so much closer to the world we all dream about.