watercolor thoughts [completed]

author's note

the fact that you have managed to get here, read my journey from the beginning of 2016 to the beginning of 2017, is something I cannot thank you for. I cannot fathom all this love you have shown to a person you have never met face to face , and I am so thankful, so so SO thankful, for all you have given me. when i first started this poetry book, i had no idea how to write poetry. i was struggling with identity questions and self-confidence, and i simple felt inspired one day and wrote this on a whim. it was unfathomable that people began reading this, supporting it. every day i saw a new read, new vote, a new comment, my day would brighten up. all of you have changed me, lifted me to become a better person --

oh goodness, don't i sound cliche. y'all have probably read millions of these types of thank-yous. you have touched my heart. thank you. 

so . . . no need to beat around the bush. I am ending this poetry book here. it was about time -- this poetry book was written by a lost girl who still had no idea who she was, and of course i still don't know, but i am simply not the same person I was in the beginning of 2016; it feels like an end of an era, and i am content to leave it there where it lays. this is, in a way, a tribute to my past self, and it only feels right. it's sad for me, but with all ends there is a beginning. i hope that you will stay with me for the next journey. it has truly been a honor. 

i will update this book to let you know about my next poetry book (if there will be one). but i take my leave here. 

thank you. 

xxx,

audrey

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

- helen keller