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If You Don't Hear From Me: An Era Of Poetry That Saved My Life

Kayla Kathawa

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Description:Growing up was hard. I felt grief I couldn't define. I only, and finally, found a little relief when I typed out some lingering thoughts, read them back, and realized I'd been silenced by pain, submitted to it. Those words gave me a voice.I posted that poem on Tumblr in 2014. Since then, I have amassed hundreds of poems about mental illness, love, heartbreak, happiness, recovery, sex, abuse, neglect, God and more. When I first hit "Post" and shared those freeing words, I didn’t know poetry would become one of my greatest skills, passions and saving grace.As lovely as it's been to have a platform to share my words, however, social media has often effected feelings in me I don't want to remember. I realized years later that sharing poetry on a blog wasn't the outlet that saved me. It was the medium through which I shared my work. The true outlet was writing those poems. Though social media has helped me connect with readers, it has hurt me, too. The influx of negativity, propaganda about brutal things that keeps me up at night, abuse, hatred...it is all detrimental to our mental wellbeing. Writing poetry was the way I healed myself before using social media, and since it has become harmful to me, I must push myself to, in time, escape it.If You Don't Hear From Me is a catalogue of the poetry – and a few brief thoughts scattered in there, some stream of consciousness – I published on social media from 2019 (the briefest part, a year in which I worked hard on my first released collection, Heavy Things) back to 2014. An era I’ve documented for when, one of these days, I hit the permanent delete buttons on those useful but tiring accounts. Maybe I’ll stay off it until I die. Maybe I won't ever leave it at all. Maybe I will and go back later. Who knows? Internal conflict never ends completely. So here is my ‘just in case.’I'm saving these poems for me. For you. To remember where I was and how far I've come. For the past, whose pain and successes must be documented. For the present, a place to come back to words that we loved.For the future, if you don't hear from me.- Kayla*Please use this note as a trigger warning. Mental illness – including depression and eating disorders – suicide, self-harm and abuse are all written of. There are no graphic photographs depicting violence, suicide or self-harm. A notice to my younger readers and their parents: there are poems in this collection of a sexual nature. While I’ve found many teenagers are comfortable reading about sex, I’m aware it doesn’t make all readers and parents comfortable. Please use discretion. Please also note that at the end of this book, there are various resources that I encourage you to please explore and utilize.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with If You Don't Hear From Me: An Era Of Poetry That Saved My Life. To get started finding If You Don't Hear From Me: An Era Of Poetry That Saved My Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 451

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Release: 2021

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Description: Growing up was hard. I felt grief I couldn't define. I only, and finally, found a little relief when I typed out some lingering thoughts, read them back, and realized I'd been silenced by pain, submitted to it. Those words gave me a voice.I posted that poem on Tumblr in 2014. Since then, I have amassed hundreds of poems about mental illness, love, heartbreak, happiness, recovery, sex, abuse, neglect, God and more. When I first hit "Post" and shared those freeing words, I didn’t know poetry would become one of my greatest skills, passions and saving grace.As lovely as it's been to have a platform to share my words, however, social media has often effected feelings in me I don't want to remember. I realized years later that sharing poetry on a blog wasn't the outlet that saved me. It was the medium through which I shared my work. The true outlet was writing those poems. Though social media has helped me connect with readers, it has hurt me, too. The influx of negativity, propaganda about brutal things that keeps me up at night, abuse, hatred...it is all detrimental to our mental wellbeing. Writing poetry was the way I healed myself before using social media, and since it has become harmful to me, I must push myself to, in time, escape it.If You Don't Hear From Me is a catalogue of the poetry – and a few brief thoughts scattered in there, some stream of consciousness – I published on social media from 2019 (the briefest part, a year in which I worked hard on my first released collection, Heavy Things) back to 2014. An era I’ve documented for when, one of these days, I hit the permanent delete buttons on those useful but tiring accounts. Maybe I’ll stay off it until I die. Maybe I won't ever leave it at all. Maybe I will and go back later. Who knows? Internal conflict never ends completely. So here is my ‘just in case.’I'm saving these poems for me. For you. To remember where I was and how far I've come. For the past, whose pain and successes must be documented. For the present, a place to come back to words that we loved.For the future, if you don't hear from me.- Kayla*Please use this note as a trigger warning. Mental illness – including depression and eating disorders – suicide, self-harm and abuse are all written of. There are no graphic photographs depicting violence, suicide or self-harm. A notice to my younger readers and their parents: there are poems in this collection of a sexual nature. While I’ve found many teenagers are comfortable reading about sex, I’m aware it doesn’t make all readers and parents comfortable. Please use discretion. Please also note that at the end of this book, there are various resources that I encourage you to please explore and utilize.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with If You Don't Hear From Me: An Era Of Poetry That Saved My Life. To get started finding If You Don't Hear From Me: An Era Of Poetry That Saved My Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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