I am an artist and this is my garden of words. Copyright @2015, All Rights Reserved

every chapter is dedicated to a person or a thing in my life have fun looking into my heart.

𝙞'𝙢 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮. *updated*

" I know you are brave because you faced your worst nightmare and called it just a bad dream. " Warning: common symptoms from reading this book include joy, sadness, tears, laughter, chills, and spontaneous comments. Read at your own risk. HR: #1 in thoughts #1 in poet #1 sadpoetry #1 lovepoetry #1 rhyming #2 in poems If you like these poems, check out my original songs on YouTube under Tyla Hoffman! Text copyright © TylaStone ™️ 2018

a collection of one line stories ~~~~ welcome to the tragedy that is my mind

#1 in poetry :) #1 in free verse :) Have you ever felt like it was the end? Like today was just a bad day? That no matter how many times you believe that something can happen that it just might not? That no one gives a damn at all? That all you do is love but don't get loved in return? That you don't matter? Me too. A book full of poems that deal with anxiety, depression, self doubt, racism, discrimination, heartbreak, sadness, and many other things. "Poetry is what happens when your mind stops working, and for a moment, all you do is feel." - Atticus.

I sometimes feel too much and other times feel nothing at all. I'm either full of volcanoes or numbness, there's nothing in between.

Sometimes my voice dies in my throat, buries itself beneath waves of crippling suffocation, burns itself out as cold hands tear at my laced skin. I have smiled while my eyes have cried and pleaded, my wrists numb, my lips wobbling and blue, and stars escaping this dark night that I'm trapped in. I long for a darkness that gives way to light. But I do feel the warmth of petals gathering and scattering in my cold bones, and imagine the touch and the sweetness of a kiss, and my heart rises to the surface of this sea and finds a sky painted by passing artists remaining far above our heads. I'm breathing out all the words I've kept locked under the pages of my breaking mind. And by doing so, I'm going to heal. TRIGGER WARNINGS: depression, anxiety, self harm, suicidal thoughts, OCD, panic attacks

all of our emotions make a sound, and this is the melody of mine

Why does one raindrop seem to drown me?