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Poetic Healing

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

Poetic Healing

© Thanu X_2019

Thanushiyah Tharmadevan

thanuxslampoet@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/thanutos/

Prologue

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.

Part I – Who am I?

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

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