Yesterday, I linked Sarah Kay's Table Games to a friend. She was asking for inspiration to write and I happened to really really like this piece from Sarah and this poetry, at different points of my life have inspired a few of my writing. So I gave her the link on her ccat and went to sleep.
I woke up the next morning to a whole paragraph of her replying to me. I love that she loved it, I love that she appreciates the little message most people often miss.
I found that this piece has become one of my favourite because of how realistic the story Sarah is trying to convey. People often imagine breakups as this one satisfying scenario, maybe a slap to the face and angry shattering heartbreaks. Even when you're the one being dumped, people imagine tear-stained cheeks, smudged eyeliners and red eyes. Most often than not breakups are simple. It's not one grand scenario, but rather a slow simmer of falling out of love. Most of the time, you can almost feel what's coming your way, a sort of epiphany before the grand revelation. One of the things my friend said in her reply that really tugged my heart is that we imagine walking out of any kind relationship ending with our pride intact but really isn't it more to a soft kind of ending? Nobody notices, nobody bats an eye and you're stuck saying things you didn't mean, words often misused and misunderstood to disguise the hurt and pain we felt at the moment. Endings are always so painful despite knowing, even more painful when it's so sudden. And I think Sarah did a great job conveying that in her poetry. It's realistic and so raw. It could happen right before your eyes and you wouldn't notice.
I woke up the next morning to a whole paragraph of her replying to me. I love that she loved it, I love that she appreciates the little message most people often miss.
I found that this piece has become one of my favourite because of how realistic the story Sarah is trying to convey. People often imagine breakups as this one satisfying scenario, maybe a slap to the face and angry shattering heartbreaks. Even when you're the one being dumped, people imagine tear-stained cheeks, smudged eyeliners and red eyes. Most often than not breakups are simple. It's not one grand scenario, but rather a slow simmer of falling out of love. Most of the time, you can almost feel what's coming your way, a sort of epiphany before the grand revelation. One of the things my friend said in her reply that really tugged my heart is that we imagine walking out of any kind relationship ending with our pride intact but really isn't it more to a soft kind of ending? Nobody notices, nobody bats an eye and you're stuck saying things you didn't mean, words often misused and misunderstood to disguise the hurt and pain we felt at the moment. Endings are always so painful despite knowing, even more painful when it's so sudden. And I think Sarah did a great job conveying that in her poetry. It's realistic and so raw. It could happen right before your eyes and you wouldn't notice.
