Pain

Feeling helpless is easily among the worst feelings to experience. Seeing someone you love with the core of your being, hurting or in pain and not being able to do anything about it is gut-wrenching. …

We want to avoid pain- physical, mental, emotional- at all costs, but is pain actually a gift? “What hurts us is what heals us.” Paulo Coelho I’ve been thinking a lot about pain lately. I hurt my back a month ago, but I neglected to take care of the pain or see a doctor until now. I really don’t like going to the doctor. I used to…

Hook: The line that makes you stop and read… Your Greatest Peace is Found in Pain Story: The why am I writing you… You know in the middle just means you refuse to choose, right? By deciding to not decide you are deciding to stay where you are. And if…

The madness got to him too, His lust to wander around Got ’em screaming on ground, He should’ ve been kept caged The Wings of Icarus let him drift apart To the bleak valleys of unknown misery, Finding the truth must be pathetic The petty lies should’ve felt sweeter The wicked laughter upon unravelling Must have done something to him, The walls should’ve been strong enough To hold him back to the delusion

I juxtapose Karoline von Günderrode’s writing and Iness Rychlik’s visual art because I see a powerful conceptual connection between them, as they both explore the difficult themes of pain, solitude, and death. This kind of compositional technique allows for visual storytelling and draws the reader/viewer in to see the greater…