Husks
Kinley R.
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My writing largely centers around things I have struggled with in my life. I find it easier to work through things by writing them out. Husks is about my own experiences with burnout and how I have changed since childhood. It centers around fire, specifically wildfires, with each section titled as a phase of a wildfire, and signifying a phase of my life. Through this poem I attempt to display the desperation to go back to the way I had been, and acknowledge the fact I cannot go back to the person I used to be. The three sections each show how I have worked through the change from childhood to near-adulthood. They highlight the ways I have come to accept the parts of myself that simply won’t relight, no matter how strongly I wish they would. Each word in Husks was carefully chosen to best display the mess of anger, grief, nostalgia, and hurt going through my mind. It is a testament to the most vulnerable and complicated parts of my heart.
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Creativity means the freedom to express yourself in a way that is completely unrestrained. It is the ability to say the things you can't simply speak aloud, it is a way to convey your meaning to the world.
