Writing poetry didn't come naturally to me. In my younger days, I never spent time reading books or writing. I was outside most of the time, playing or up to one antic or the other.
It was when the dark side of life made her way into mine. My inner voice was telling me that she's going to be there for a while. Am I ready for the battle, tumultuous, that was in the coming? It took me some time to come to terms with it, but I told myself that ‘It’s not about how hard I can get hit, it's about how hard I can get hit and still move on’.(From the movie Rocky). This line gave me the intrinsic motivation to face fire with fire. When I picked up the pen and started writing, I found peace in pain.
For the readers, this book of poems will reveal that we are unconsciously fighting battles with the outside voice, while our body and mind are having their own, which is a blind spot for us. To ACCEPT what happened is a mountainous task for everyone, but without Accepting, how can you move forward? Probably your current situation or experience is teaching you something and instead of pausing and giving it space to emerge, we end up questioning ‘Why Me?’, ‘What did I do?’, instead of ‘Why not Me?’ and ‘What next?’.
