I wrote this poem a few years ago, when I was at my wits end with a problem me and my family have been dealing with for the past five years. Pandemic aside, it was so disturbing that they inspired me to write a poem, and it's one of my favorites because it captures most of what I went through during that time at it's worst and to this day fighting them off. You know you've written something you like when you get a feeling like the words just come to you like they're being whispered by an invisible force and an almost perfect complete draft comes out in a quick instance. Perhaps it was also how strongly I felt about it. As every writer knows, the editing process is never over and little things are changed and added and improved upon with every reread, year after year which is how I ended up using the "we all float here" quote from one of my favorite scary movies to describe the time I saw a mini ant island forming in a sippy cup of water I accidentally left out coming back from a trip. The stuff of nightmares.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
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BTS: Travel Poem
An old "finished?" poem from the vault that I might've written in 2015. I found it when I was looking for another particular "finished" poem I wrote for a class a long time ago about my experience making Boeuf Bourguignon. It's a very weird thing to come back to this blog many years later, quite embarrassing and young me had a lot of internal angst and was going through a lot back then, kind of still am, what life is I guess, but I'm proud of my writing? Even though I haven't written anything in a really long time time, it's one of the only things that I feel like I've always been good at? There isn't a lot published on this blog and teen me started writing about a variety of random things including early 2000s Kpop music reviews, one of the only ways I've noticed to work around having OCPD is to work on things and come back to it and keep adding over a long period of time, but looking back on old posts, ignoring imperfection aside, it was so fun being so creative back then experimenting with anything and everything, not just poems.