Dreams, Nightmares, and Other Ideations: For the Sad Boys and Girls Who Became Sad Adults

I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. My parents immigrated here

from Haiti. I was always taught to have compassion for other people by them.

It's a lesson that I have carried throughout my life. I started taking poetry

seriously in 2017, before then it was rare that I would write anything. I would

write poems on guest checks at the restaurant I was working at, at the time.

It was a weird point in my life where I was moving through it on autopilot

and not taking care of myself. I wrote to keep myself sane and shift through

my emotions. It was then, when I started sharing them with other people and

found that they were resonating with it. Being that I am an avid reader and

movie watcher, I was slightly obsessed with all the inner working of dialogue

in general. The way words can be put together to heal and create beautiful

moments has stuck with me in a way that I cannot describe.