WriteOn! 2024

1st Place - Darla Krashiqi

I think in my opinion fame or money or something else similar I don’t know, is for selfish people. People who are afraid to be themselves and pretend to be somebody else that doesn’t even fit. I don’t want to be like those kind of people. I want to be so bad a writer. How did that St What made me think of being a writer and not a famous actor or singer? Let me tell you why is that. I got hurt. People were pushing me to do things I was scared about. I saw things that only happend in movies and I didn’t couldn’t find a song that express me and my mind. My mind is a mess. So I started writing. I don’t know if what I’m doing or what is going to do is good but I’ll try because that’s who I am. That’s where I belong. I don’t feel safe in my own home or even in my own arms. I’m so homesick of that. I don’t want to be a poet. I want to be the poem. I think that is so great to be a creature who can save minds our souls and have the power to fight the darkest past on everybody’s mind. I want to meet the dark in people, I’m gonna ask the dark for a coffee. I’m gonna take the dark out for a dinner or a movie. I’m gonna tell the dark that I feel so comfortable with our bind of “love”. Then when dark trust me I’m gonna left. I’m gonna make dark to cry so hard that it hurts and it sucks to have feelings. I’m gonna make the dark to go away from peple and move on, or ever to start a new life. That’s the power of a writer. They can change people and take their sadness away only by writing a book. How ironic isn’t it? Isn’t everything we do a way to be loved more? I wanna fix people but not myself. If I fix myself than I’m gonna stop writing! People write when they’re lonley. What’s the point if lonley goes away? I don’t say I’m a weak human. I don’t know if I’m a human anymore. I’m all stress and pain. But it’s good I guess because I can turn my sadness to something beautiful, so I think I know how to sak for help without sounding desperate. You may think that I’m just a kid who is dying for some attention. Yes, I want your attention. I want all of yours. I want to tell people that is okay to be sad it’s okay to cry about thing that aren’t even important. You know how bad you are when you just get comfortable with silence because I think that silence is the most powerful scream. That’s why animals have less fear because they live without words. When I get older and I start publishing books, I don’t you to just throw them in your bed and say “Why I’m doing here what is this book?” I want that book to be a ghost that can haunt you for the rest of your life. A book is worth than a thousand therapisy. The book will learn you that you need to be something who can make you belive that you are better than you thought. Don’t stress over people because one day you’re going to wake up and realize and realize that you don’t need them in your life. Be your own anchor. Who got you? You got you. Keep it that way. That’s the power of a writer.