Every Little Thing

I remember every little thing, the sounds of my heart in my ears, the tears threatening to fall. e lump in my throat is impossible to swallow. I remember every little thing, the feeling of my head against my pillow while my heart physically ached. ey say time is the healer, although I never wanted to believe that. I remember every little thing, but I didn't want to, I wanted to forget it all. Being excited to check my phone turned into a dull headache of unchecked notifications. My family laughing and happy downstairs turned into a blur of unknown noise. I remember every little thing, drowning in the blanket that covered my body, I needed a release, to get away from the endless thoughts lashing in my brain. Every thought came and went like lightning and thunder, plaguing my mind like concrete. I don't want to remember every little thing, I needed the foreign feeling of happiness, a smile on my face and my eyes glimmering with laughter instead of tears. I needed air, the gorgeous pink and yellow sky above me. e little stars just started to peek out like the glimmer of hope I had that it would be okay. It would eventually be okay to remember every little thing.

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What inspired this poem was my own personal life. Writing is the best way to process things, so I kinda used this entire class to write things that have a somewhat personal aspect on my own life. The message I was trying to convey was even at your worst moments it’ll be okay when you work through it. Life’s hard but the more hope you have that it’ll be okay it will get better. The line I’m most proud of is “Being excited to check my phone turned into a dull headache of unchecked notifications.” Because I believe I did well describing the way your phones exciting till the mess of notifications just becomes bland and you get sick of keeping up with it all. The two main poetic devices in this are personification and rhythm. Personification is used a ton when describing an action compared to why that action is being used. It describes an action like a feeling, laying in your bed and being unable to get up because your heart physically hurts. Then rhythm is used when saying ‘I remember every little thing.’ That was a phrase used consistently and constantly.