Returning to Writing

A brief rundown: in August of 2015, I began school at Agnes Scott College; by November, I was forced to medically withdraw. In January of 2016, I started school again, this time with Georgia Perimeter College and online, a way for me to continue to recover but still interact with the academia I loved. Now, in the fall of 2016, I continue with GPC online and, as of today, join the workforce.

All this to say, the past year of my life has been tumultuous at best. I and much in my life have been, at many points, considered unstable. Previously, I was unfit for school or work. Previously, I was unfit for much, after a hospital visit in September of 2015 left me feeling no less unwell or more prepared for going forward. However, previously, I was not

All this to say, writing left me for a while. Perhaps rather, I left it. I felt I no longer had the words to say what I needed to say, or that I had anything to say at all. In the past few days, my words have returned. I feel I have regained a part of myself, reconnected to the lost bits that do not fit well into the form of "person" but do wonders as "poet."

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