If you’re reading this, at this point you already know who I am but for the sake of not knowing how to start this shit, my name is Essence. I am 25. A creative in my own right. A poet. A painter. A seamstress. A designer. A DJ. A writer and a lot of other things. I recently started a YouTube to showcase my abilities but the best expression of me as a whole has always been through writing. To be real writing this blog is for me more than anything else or anyone else. I hate how people react to others really expressing what’s on their mind especially on their own social media so in order to not fuck up the church’s money I decided to try to separate my feelings from work. This shit will not always be grammatically correct and run on sentences are my thing, just ask Mrs. DelVecchio 😇 (who really encouraged me after my final semester to keep writing outside of academic obligation, she’s a gem fr.)
Aside from very necessary encouragement I have shit I have to get off of my chest. Like on a consistent basis. I am extremely introspective and my 3 year run in therapy helped to further develop that. I would still be in therapy (which is why I think I have so much to say) but I decided at this age it was time for me to get a Black female therapist instead of a Black male. Dr. Hodges was great and really helped to change my perspective on how life works but he’s still a guy and let’s be real, they just don’t get itttttt. I found one and soon after had insurance issues so here I am spilling my guts to y’all on the innanets. Shameful, don’t you know they want you to keep E V E R Y T H I N G inside? So they don’t have to deal with how YOUR feelings make them feel.
Anyway, I’ll be sharing my poems, my thoughts and a bunch of short writings that will maybe one day turn into a full story. Who knows.
Essence the Poet ✍🏾 