This Poem About The Darkness Of Depression Gets Beautifully Animated

function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); I first began writing poetry when I was in high school to escape the constant and merciless torture inflicted on me by the homophobic monsters I called my classmates. My biology teacher, bless her, let me hide out in her lab during lunch or other free periods so I could avoid whatever living nightmares awaited me in the school hallways, and I began to write as a way to process the agony I was living through.20 years later, Im alive and thriving, and I credit poetry as playing a large part in me still being on this planet. Today, I have an MFA in poetry from New York University, and while my job as editorial director of HuffPost Voices makes it hard for me to dedicate the kind of time and energy Id like to my poetry, I still write ' often to work through confusion or pain or other emotions in the same way I did as a 14-year-old.Last year, in the midst of a particularly bad bout of depression, I wrote a poem entitled This Might Not Make Sense Now, But Dont Worry, It Will. The poem deals with the strange and devastating feeling of being so distanced from the things that made me happy that, while not being suicidal, I worried that I had become so apathetic about my life that it now held little meaning for me.After reading the poem, Ji Sub Jeong, one of HuffPosts talented multimedia producers, asked if he could have a go at animating it, and I was incredibly moved by the poems transformation from written word to animated short.Today were sharing the piece as part of National Poetry Month. Check it out above.type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related... + articlesList=58f50b68e4b0da2ff8625620,58b07eb6e4b060480e079dbf -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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