Samantha W. Yuen

Growing up, there were many things about myself I struggled for long periods to understand. To express the frustration and daily anxieties, I would always write and sing. It wasn’t until college that I finally had the courage to begin truly exploring the art field, and now within it I am able to apply therapy for myself while combining poetry in the artworks I make.

Cuts in Remembrance, Dec. 2018

To you who traumatized my purity as a kid just to please yourself

To you who haunted my confidence every single day because you were insecure

To you who stripped me of my love as something no more than being disposable

To you who never will understand the magic before you as you let it all go to waste

To you who is too self absorbed to see the weight of your burden on others

To you who doesn’t want to remove temptations from feeding your pride

To you who has promised a forever kind of friendship only to cast me aside when I’m no longer what you need

To you who has sworn to love me in every way to only then become what you said you’d never be

To you who has given me the strength to grow only to retract from me when you felt I was becoming too much

I’ve not loved because I could

I’ve not loved because I would

I’ve not loved because I should-

I’ve only loved because I wanted to believe in it

Now the pain that sits on my fingertips

To everything I want to touch and hold

Can never know its way back to healing