Autore: AL

At age 12, I had a vague vision about romanticism, and then piece-by-piece it became apparent that romance flows within. I started writing poetry about the same time I started learning English. My ‘why’ back then was the pursuit of love. I gained the heart of the girl at the expense of my first poem being read out loud, in front of the class, by a teacher who caught me passing the poetic note to my beloved. I was afraid of the embarrassment, and how my pears would react, after they saw the words I wrote to get to her. I was juvenile. However, it was at this moment that I realized that expression of self, to an artist, is the ultimatum.