About Being Young

By Freya Celeste

This collection of poetry and prose offers a sweet, raw and at times stark insight on some of life's most humbling experiences. Nostalgic and explorative, About Being Young is a striking tale of youth beyond childhood, of love after death and of beauty amidst chaos. 
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Freya Rothwell-Bodycomb
• Release date: Aug 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781999424879

Freya Celeste

Freya Celeste was born and raised just outside of Montreal, Canada. She won the Kay and Jim Dudgeon Creative Writing Prize in 2013 and graduated John Abbott College with a Creative Arts, Language and Literature diploma in 2016.

Book preview

1.

The beginning and the end

can never be divorced.

You already know this

but understand

they walk in and out of your door

always holding hands.

Dear Daydreams

I will not be consumed.

You might feel like flower petals,

you might wash out all my pain

like a tsunami of warm air

and seaborne kisses

but I will not

let you wash me away.

Sometimes you’re a swing

that drags me across

the borders of my mind

and you get red dirt

on my elbows.

Sometimes you bury me in sand.

Often you’re kindest to me

the most forgiving

for there will always be a dream

waiting for me tomorrow.

But sometimes you cloud

my life

with reminders

of her green eyes.

Of hands

I will never hold.

Of lives

which do not last.

So I need you to quiet down.

I need you

to get out of bed every morning.

To close the door.

To leave your smell of Jasmine

in my sheets

and your saltwater taste

in my mouth.

And then

please,

my dear Daydreams

leave the rest of me

behind.

It’s 1 am

And we’re still up

just listening

to each other’s voices.

We’re bundled

nose