I hope this finds you well is a collection of poetry derived from fifteen years of eating disorders, addiction, heartbreak and emotional healing. The poems are numbered in random order as a metaphor of the confusing and bewildering environment of mental illness and addiction. It is also intentional to symbolize the way healing is not linear; we often start on step one, jump to step sixteen, regress to step six and then wake up the next day at step 273. An hour later we are back to step 30. The author compels the reader to understand you are where you are supposed to be; there is no timeline.
Encompassing the metaphor of a vase, it is divided into five sections: the molding, the painting, the shattering, the rebuilding and the revealing. Throughout the journey, it slowly becomes apparent that the reader is the vase.
Lastly, I hope this finds you well is a community of understanding we are not what broke us; we are what we became from it.
Selected poems include:
"growth is disguised as abandonment
it is often found in the wilderness
uncovered by resilience"
"someone will pick up a vase
not that one! the universe will scream
that one has cracks from where
it has shattered and
they will lift the vase higher so that
the light streams through the broken pieces
and the will say
that is what makes this one perfect
--- you are the vase"
"he says
I do not understand how
your heart is so big
and I think
because every time it breaks
it expands"
"the night you left
I stared into the waves of the Atlantic
wondering how something could be
so calming, yet so tumultuous
--- our love was like the sea"