Light within darkness

Poetry from March 2020-June 2020

A personal journey through writing with the intent to express emotions coinsiding with severe depression, anxiety, familial loss, and COVID-19. What happens when you know you have everything you could ever want in life, a loving, accepting family, your soulmate, finally stable mental health, passion, and prime high school years and suddenly half of that gets taken away? You break.

Having your soulmate when your grandpa dies makes it a hell of a lot easier because you remember what love feels like, but it's never easy. Social distancing away from the love of your life is excruciating when your life has just begun and now, more than a year later, one week until we can kiss, hug, and warm each others hearts, I can finally look back and face my feelings. Here's my story through poetry.

trigger warning: Sexual and depression/anxiety content