Ok, so you all know I like to write...but did you
know:
I am 23 years old, living in Australia?
Hmmmm...you could have gotten that information
from anywhere if you looked hard enough...let's
see...did you know:
I am a lesbian (duh! scratch that let's move on
to something else)
Oh I give up I guess I'll just have to tell you
stuff about me and you can decide for yourself
what you do/don't want to know.
So here we go...Yes, I am a 23 year old
Australian lesbian, not quite out of the closet
yet but getting there at my own pace. I
discovered that I had a talent for writing about
10 years ago when I started giving into the
burst of inspiration and writing poetry. Some of
this I shared with my teachers at school (mostly
because I'd get caught writing in class!!) but
most of what I wrote I guarded with my life. The
reason behind this was that I was using poetry as
a means to discover myself and I was scared to
death that someone (members of my family) would
read it and take it too literally. A lot of my
early poetry was full of the usual teenage angst.
To deal with the changing hormones and the
insecurities of who I was, I wrote mostly in the
third person in an attempt to