I don't even know how to explain some of it. I guess I'll start off with this writing poetry is not enjoyable for me, quite frankly. It is usually torture and it's needful. But there are definitely nights where I cannot get to sleep until after I have written lines where I've gotten something done because my brain demands I get something out to let me rest. So, yes, there are ways in which it helps me
From Silence
@FromSilence · 4:09
I guess that's one of the benefits of my personality, is I don't really get angry. But the problem I'm having right now is that my poems are coming out angry. At least they seem that way to me. And that's not what they are. They're sad. There's definitely sadness, but not anger. So the things that are coming are not what I want to say. And everything else is just jammed up in there, and it's really rough
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 4:25
And for it not to have an outlet or a way to release via journaling or for me, poetry, some of my best pieces, honestly, are f****** angry, and yet they still serve a purpose and they still get a message out. And you may not want to ever share the angry side or the anger that bubbles up, but if you don't find a way to release it, it will destroy you
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 0:23
Wanted to add one more thing. You are so correct in saying that we pour our whole souls into what we write. A poet puts their whole soul onto paper, and that is a big deal. But you have to feed that soul too. So anyway, thank you for sharing
From Silence
@FromSilence · 0:48
It's. As always, I appreciate you having something to say in response. I don't really have too much I can comment right now, other than to say very simply that it really is the fact that I'm not mad, I'm not angry. And in a lot of ways, for me, it's the one emotion that I am able to put aside. I can I don't have to blow up