Usually, I enjoy writing about positive topics, like queer liberation, music, the admiration of life around me; or stories full of love, adventure, and passion. Recently though, something has been propelling me to write more about my own story. My dreams, talents, struggles, and ambitions. Life is beautiful but it can also get ugly sometimes, and I intend to show both aspects of my own personal experience through this release. The release feels cathartic, and my wish makes it to the right audience so that the people that need to hear my story can feel a sense of hope in their own struggles too. I know what it’s like to go through something and not have anyone around you understand because it’s too confusing and abstract. Frankly, my mind is an abstract web of thought, which I personally call noise. Sometimes, the noise is a beautiful harmony. Other times it is a combination of off-key sounds from a horror movie soundtrack. My mind is never bored, for ideas always burst forth from it. I come from a multicultural background, where our traditions sometimes clashed with one another. Yet, I found a way to bridge them together and make them coexist with one another. So bridging the gap between things and simply allowing them to be is not new to me. In my most recent writing, my fourth poem, I described how I bridged the gap between being hopeless and regaining my faith during a difficult moment in my life. This is just one example. Lately there are some very special people who have contributed to my work. First, my incredible teacher, Mr. Jordan, an amazing, talented, visionary who is never afraid to offer his insightful critiques and enhance the thoughts that travel from my head, to paper. He has taught me so much about my writing skills and has helped me to always aim for so much more, and to share my art with others. Next, my mom and my friends who have always lended an ear to hear out my work, and to motivate me to also do my best in whatever i put my heart to from the very beginning when my writing were only but rambles and infinite rants!