Why I Write These Poems

 Writing these books has been a way for me to identify my feelings and emotions so that I can have a better understanding of myself, my thoughts, beliefs and behavior patterns. It has been a way for me to release hidden and trapped emotions in order for me to heal. 

While sitting with myself and allowing myself to feel anything that comes, even if it’s painful, I am allowing my emotions to arise and come to the surface. When these feelings arise so do the words that I write. It’s as if I can hear them speak to me, even if sometimes they don’t make sense to me at the time, I go with it. I allow whatever is there to appear. 

   My struggle has been between my ego and my heart, darkness and light. I’ve written many poems but cannot recite one if asked because my poems are manifested through my feelings.

Though I’ve written these words, they come from the emotion or feeling that I am having in a moment, some are very repetitive. Feelings and emotions come and go in time, so I feel compelled to write what comes because I fear that if I do not, the words I receive will be gone too. 

By writing these poems I am acknowledging myself and my feelings. I am making them real. I can then look back and learn about myself and why I feel, believe and behave in a certain way. By learning about myself, I have the power to change myself. I am writing this book because I strive to dismantle broken thought and behavior patterns and become the person I am meant to become. “I am Love, I am that, I am.

  I also want to share my poems with others so that they know they are not alone in their struggles Maybe someone will relate to one or more of my poems and realize “Hey, I’m not alone, I have felt this too.”  We are all in this together, separation is only an illusion we were taught to believe from the very start.