Writing by Marlene Martinez Bello (page

Writing

By marlene martinez bello

She always found comfort in writing; it is the best drug for melancholy. It keeps her awake and washes over her like the tides of the sea. She feels so immensely understood by it. Thus, as she lies in bed, she thinks of how she dreams too much and doesn ’t write enough; how she ’ll exhaust her fingers till they fall apart even if she knows her poem will never be struck by daylight. Her ultimate goal was to unleash those words that were suppressed inside, for them to burst out like a rocket ship and with that, liberate every piece of emotion within her. The concept of writing, of giving your heart a pencil and spelling out the beats, of writing what you feel and feeling what you write—this was the process that gave voice to her most profound and impermissible emotions, her sacred mode of expression and communication with her ghosts.