I bottled up my anger at least there wasn't much a vile and useless vintage which nobody should touch I bottled up my frailties with all the things I lack not one soul wants to see them. I hide them in the back I bottled up my failures and gallons full they made I set them on the counter where they can be displayed. I bottled up my darkness. The parts of me I fear. But when I closed the stopper, I found I wasn't here
From Silence
@FromSilence · 4:24
I can look at it and I can see myself or even some of the other poems that I have written on the topic of me. I look at them, I'm like, okay, yeah, it's true. But at the same time, I don't know if it reflects me the best. This one does, which I understand is probably not a very good thing when you look at the context, it's almost certainly not a good thing. But it's true
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 1:14
But I've gotten better at it just because it was time for me to look at myself and why I do the things that I do and what I see myself as. So thank you for allowing us in and allowing us to be part of your journey. And yes, sir, again, you are good enough. Thank you
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
From Silence
@FromSilence · 3:56
So the result for me has always been to see the pain that me doing that causes and to realize that I would rather bear it myself than pass it along to someone else. And so in some ways I know the way I expressed the poem the way I expressed the poem, the way I wrote the poem yes, did come in a moment where it did feel like there was nothing to me other than those negative things being bottled up
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 0:41
It, but bearing it yourself instead of having others bear the weight of it is a selfless act in and of itself. And are you truly able to unpack and deal with the things that you bottle up and set to the side while they're bottled up and pushed back on a shelf somewhere? I rather than out in the open in your face. I guess that's what I struggle with. And I don't see the selfishness in choosing to bear the weight of something