I Shall Live Forever (A kind of poem)

“You can censor my mind, but I will still fight, I will still dream, I will still be me. You can take away my eyes, but not my vision nor the memories of what I’ve seen. You can take away my hands, but not my ability to feel. You can take away my feet, but not my ability to travel far. You can take away my heart, but you will never make me belong to someone else, I am my own person. You can take away all my blood, but you will never take away my warmth. You can take away my life, but I will still live on the memory of those I met, loved, hated, helped, hurt. They shall carry on, each with a piece of me and together, I shall live forever.”

- Nana Beluzzi

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So yeah just found this really old text that I wrote and thought I would share it with you, I'm really amazed by the english I used here, I made a lot of mistakes back then (not much as changed then) but this isn't half bad at all, despite the very cheesy content!

Burning Your Feelings Away

Once upon a time, somewhere in-between childhood and adolescence, I felt like my life was too overwhelming, like everybody hates me, I felt alone... But something else was burning inside of me, something that honestly I rarely feel, anger.
I was angry with me, my family, my so-called friends, people I once knew but that became mere strangers, all of them were to blame!
For days that anger was consuming me, to let out my frustration I wrote "hate, hATE, HATE, H A T E" horrible, hateful things went through my mind, but I dodn't want to be like that, I didn't want to be that person, so I grabbed those feelings, all that hate, and I burned it... I simply burned it!
i know it seems so idiotic how burning a piece of written paper can influence something, but when I saw that flame consume the blue, black and red ink I also burned the hate in my mind, and for a small moment I felt so calm, so peaceful, it was marvellous.

Since then I've taken as a habit to burn my feeling away, sadness, anger, frustration... even love... I burn it all away in my mind, if I do that I can protect myself, I can continue to feel that brief peace in my mind, people say I have to take leaps of faith, that I have to trust... To hell with that! Never let anyone tell you that you have to feel, you can't hide away, yes, it's unhealthy, yes, I may miss chances at something great, but that is because I KNOW I'm not ready, and if you're not either don't let anybody tell you otherwise!

- Nana Beluzzi