To me poetry is not an escape, it is a release. Poetry is not me hiding behind the curtain, it is me unveiling what lies behind the curtain.

Poetry is all my fears, sadness, my demons, my absolute inability to connect and my debilitating loneliness brought forward to meet their maker. Poetry is my conscious statement to my subconscious horrors that the day of reckoning is coming.

Poetry isn't me adding a silver lining to my dark-clouded life, to me poetry is darkness brought to light.