Edge of the World

I don’t write poetry often, mostly because I don’t think I’m all that good at it, but some-what because of an asshole professor in college. It was an Introduction to Poetry Writing course as an undergrad and for our first assignment, we were to write a personal poem, which I did. While I was 19 years old, I’d lived through a LOT by this point. My poem was about mental illness and my own struggles with it, which is a common poetry theme with folks that age who’ve lived through what I have.

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