Blue Crayon

By Rowen Ingrid Parker

Blue Crayon is a collection of poetry and prose about mental health and endurance. Rowen Ingrid Parker explores the themes of love, emotional battles and survival in this moving and powerful collection of poems.

I told her that when I feel like self-harming
instead of scratching myself
with my nails or paperclips
I like to run a blue crayon across my skin
she smiled a small smile
because she thought that I had found a way to stop
but when I told her that my scars
were the crayon's doing
she lowered her head
and cried

• Language: English
• Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing
• Release date: Aug 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393690603

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BLUE CRAYON

ROWEN INGRID PARKER

COPYRIGHT © 2019 ROWEN Ingrid Parker.

This edition published in 2019 by BLKDOG Publishing.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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For those who feel alone

Please let me tell you, you are never alone

Please remember to practice self-care before, during and after reading.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank BLKDOG for helping me every step of the way to make this lovely mess of jumbled thoughts into a book. Thank you to my family for always putting up with me. Thank you Ms.Berg for reading the first poem and encouraging me to use writing as a form of therapy. Thank you to everyone I've encountered. M, I am thankful that our paths crossed even for the briefest of moments. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this. If you can relate, I'm sorry. I hope that you can at least find comfort in these words though. I just want to let you know that you are never alone and you are loved.