why i write

I love this clip. It really helps a person who doesn't believe in poetry understand why it's here. It's emotion in words and it describes feelings that can't normally be described.

A lot of people that have read my work ask me where it all comes from, if it's personal, but they never ask why. Why do I write? Most of my writing is written in second person - if you haven't already noticed. I like to put the spotlight on the reader and engulf them around a sea of poetic words, it's intriguing, and for the most part - it's relative. Whoever reads it can find a way to relate and it can aid them one way or another.

The main reason I write is to put one word after another and creating a brilliant meaning out of it. Not just by meaning, but creating art in the words as well. I can write something reflective but in a blunt, boring, professional manner. Or I could use drops of euphemism to weather something a person falls in love with and maybe something cacophonous to confront one with what they despise. That's what I love - to play with the language and to create not just poetry but poetic prose.

And something most people don't know about me is that I barely read - it's really ironic. I used to read a lot at a young age up until university. As an English major, I couldn't really find time to do my own reading when I had two books every class written by a dead person to put my time in. So that burnt me out and really damaged my love to read. It's still effecting me right now - it's a struggle starting a whole new book.

But yeah, that's why I write. To define something beautifully, to have a person fall in love with not just the meaning, but the words behind those meanings. And there's the second part of it - I don't really write as much for myself as I do for others. Yes, a lot of it's through experience and my own understanding of a certain situation but it's my way of giving someone a fruit when all they've come across is bitterness.

Till next time - I hope you're doing okay.