An Open Letter To Jack

A letter to a friend who read this poem: http://hubpages.com/hub/Sometimes_I_Am_Drowning_poetry

Thanks Jack, I'm behind poetry wise. Still writing, but lazy about posting it I guess. It's motivating to know someone actually noticed I hadn't posted in a while. This particular poem was about my real life, but I was well aware of taking the 'dark glasses' perspective.

Sometimes, after reading this or that poem, I get emails from people asking if I'm suicidal. I take that as a compliment. But often, the poems are either about an event that happened long ago, or a fictitious event, or a poem I wrote when thinking how someone else must have felt. It's the price of being an empath. It's always why I can't take sides...I tend to see nearly every viewpoint as valid. I also write songs for a male guitarist, so I often write from the male point of view so it will sound right when he sings it. It's all a great challenge. Aye?

And I happen to be melancholy by nature. Poetry is cathartic. Sometimes you just have to write down everything that is bothering you, and then you feel better.