A hero’s journey
My EVS was an amazing experience; I could never have pictured what kind of person I would become, one year ago. In my poem “A hero’s journey” I tell my experience of finding myself. I was inspired by McKenna Kaelin and her Poem ‘The Girl Who's Made Of Words’ and the monomyth of hero's journey which is a common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure. I hope you will enjoy it. Like my EVS which was a big challenge I had to push myself forward to create this poem. Because it was my very first attempt to write something like this not in my mother tongue.
I have a story to tell
From a girl I used to know
Of tales, persons and places she’s been
Have you heard from that girl?
With flowers that sprout from her veins
She loses her fear
She followed that call – so gentle and warm
So she went away from the roots which humans had set down
Have you heard from that girl?
With white roses on her breast
She fought the darkness and the greatest demons
Wounds spread across her skin
As a reminder to never give up
Have you heard from that girl?
Who found colours and paint
She draws her own way where the world left her grey
She wants to be free, happy and brave
No longer a slave
Have you heard from that girl?
Who breathes legend and tales?
The shadows of her past don’t define her anymore
She’s the knight
You won’t stop her anymore
Have you heard from that girl?
That spreads her wings in a hurricane
She chose hope in the dead of night
To find herself in a storm of choices
When she turned inside
She broke her prism and held the light
I used to know that girl
Like a song I heard and almost forgot
Like the figure out of a fairy tale book
We were parallel lines:
Always close, never together
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