Essay

Relationships. Everybody has a different opinion on relationships, there's healthy and unhealthy. In the poem "how is your heart" by Charles Bukowski he talks about the unhealthy kind ,and how your life at home is bad, you feel ugly and unwanted wherever you are. I can't say that I can relate to him, but I'm sure some of you can. Unentilted by Jenifer L'Hirondelle,I feel this poem is sharing her love towards her son ,I also can't relate to this because I don't have a child. The poem that spoke to me the most was “To a stranger" by Walt Whitman. When I read this poem I thought of a girlfriend/boyfriend relationship and how they were together for a long period of time, they mean everything to each other, there in love everything goes well, then out of nowhere they brake up and there strangers..? Yes, this probably happened to a few of you but I can talk about this through experience. You guys spend as much time as you can together text/call all the time have your inside jokes, you think everything is going perfectly then the day you never want to happen, happened. You guys are strangers now. No more goodnight calls, kissing, morning texts that say "morning beautiful<3" no passing each other in the halls on your way to class saying hey, or your having a bad day and just seeing them smile or knowing you have them turns your whole day around. You guys avoid each other. One talks behind your back, you don't even look at each other anymore, no texts/calls absolutely nothing. You guys are strangers. You feel like you’re nothing to him, like none of the time being together meant something. Were strangers now? Looking at that person all the memories come rushing back, and you think to yourself I have surely somewhere lived a life of joy with you.