Craig T.

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift." -Mary Oliver I've never excelled swinging a hammer, and digging fence holes was a disaser. I've tried to do everything society said a man has to do, to no avail. I decided to open the box concealing the darkness I suppressed. As pain rushes through my veins, I felt my first 23 years of life were wasted. To cope with my rising depression over the next month, I wrote down the demons that haunted me, word by word, exposing the truth behind each one. I began to realize these wernt just stories, they we art. I realized I'll never be the man people want me to be, instead I'm the man who can mend your souls with his words. I can ease the pain in another human being because of that darkness in me. I'm difrent, some day stupid, in the end though, I'm me.