City Lights

Lauren L.

• Artist Statement

  This poem shares my experience riding the Caltrain and witnessing someone's suicide attempt mindfulness and intentionality. "City Lights" is a poem of both mourning and celebration of life. We've lost so many to mental illness, and my goal is not to glorify that experience, but to shed light, not to convince or persuade, on the beauty of life. We have so many poems left to write. This is my love letter to my community of fellow humans navigating this harrowing and spectacular beauty we call living.

• Creative Statement

  Creativity means the collision of expression and emotion that comes from a place of inspiration to see an experience as a piece of the world. It means solace and translation of feeling into art.