1 Titel Seite
2 Prologue
3 Part I – Who am I?
4 Part II – Poetic Healing with Love
5 Part III – Poetic Healing from Depression
6 Part IV – Poetic Healing from Weltschmerz
7 Epilogue
© Thanu X_2019
Thanushiyah Tharmadevan
https://www.facebook.com/thanutos/
Writing is part of my therapeutic process of healing. Sharing my thoughts and rhythms with the world intensifies the feeling of having spoken out my sorrows from my soul, making them more abstract and more relatable at the same time. This book is a collection of poems I wrote on my own path of poetic healing. It is a mosaic of poems that do not build a pattern, but in the end paint a picture of my strive for poetic healing.
Who I am
I am a puzzle
where not all the pieces fit together
I am a mosaic
where in the end, there is no pattern to admire
I am a snowflake
that melts while falling
lands as rain
and disappears as a tear among many
I am a volcano of sadness
not even the best geologists can foresee
when I explode into a quiet, sad being
when everything remains
I am a bird
that got lost in the desert
flew a few miles too far
or a few miles too little
flying around lonely
looking for company
the worst part of the story
is that when I found company
I did not stop feeling lonely.
Being a second generation Immigrant
That is not how a Tamil girl looks like
they say, when they mean
this is not how I’m supposed to look like
the dress is too short, the top too tight
my steps too fast and not following the right way.
Don’t forget where you come from
they say, when they mean
I’m not allowed to settle here
the nights too long, my dreams too big,
my voice too loud and not saying the right things.
Don’t disrespect your parents
they say, when they mean
I’m not allowed to choose my own path