PINK ELEMENT

the experience 

A POEM BY SHIANTI

two souls intertwined into lifetimes

finding pain in the grass of the other side

a cycle too karmic to break

emotions to hard to say

so we contemplate & complicate

the destination of love lasting

it feels good to be back on Tumblr. The last time I was on this site I was 13 yrs old integrating into high school in the summer when the the vibes & my teen angst was at its high . The year was 2011 & the rising artists at the time were Tyler the creator of OFWGKTA 

who broke all odds of social norms by what could be played on tv in the early mornings of MTV’S music countdown before we all  left for school wiith his single YOKERS.

The ASAP MOB was coming up fast & drake just released his 2011 album “TAKE CARE”. Those artist set the tone for my entire high school experience & to be honest I feel as if they set the tone of an entire generation. Tumblr was filled with snippets of Tyler and the asap mob, id sit on my school bus blasting heustalantavegas by drake on repeat. Every boy referred to themselves as the “goon squad” & We’d tune into MTV at 8PM to watch the latest episodes of jersey shore while we tweaked our Tumblr HTML codes to help showcase our personalities, likes and interests. I can still hear my mom yelling to me from the  other room to give it a break and eat dinner, but I needed to find that one special song for my playlist first.  The times have changed & since I've been gone so have I , I look back at those years & I'm just  automatically taken back by my old Tumblr account “this was me back then” is what I think to myself & the nostalgia comes rushing back. The music I loved so dearly rings in my ears like it was yesterday ( tbh I still listen to those songs haha ) but I think that's the beautiful thing about being back on this site, Seeing just how much things have grown since then. I'm a poet & artist now and I'm proud to say that I'm in a more still and sane space, I still have a bits of the 2011 Tumblr in me but at the same time, even the posts I find intriguing now just shows how much my mind has expanded. I may be looking too deep into it but to me its very moving. I decided to come back on Tumblr to utilize this as a little journal I guess, to showcase my art, poetry & interests & in a way its a new outlet to showcase my heart space and mind but I do miss 2011 & the blogs I knew back then. The posts that molded me and inspired me as a artist and creative I am today. I wonder just a bit how the 2011 Tumblr kids are doing now and if they ever went back to their old accounts, it was the biggest culture shift for me to witness & a very bitter sweet sight. I guess I just want to say, thank you 2011.