This week, Sacred Heart is spreading awareness about eating disorders. Art is a powerful tool used in the recovery process of all traumas. Below is poetry from Sacred Heart student Kathryn Teneyck’s book “Too Much” in which she writes about mental health and recovery.
Glass Heart
By Kathryn Teneyck
in place of her heart
there was simply a sun
with brilliant golden light
that seeped out her ribcage and onto the world
but behind the sun
there lived a stoic glass heart
blood pulsed through the iron veins
of her glass heart
it’s funny.
how something so strong can run through something
so fragile
the glass was filled with standing water
you could see straight through the glass
to thick vines of iron veins
the glass was covered in hairline fractures
so delicate that from a far they were undetectable
but if you looked up closely
you could see that the glass has spider webbed
and the water was leaking out
just mere drops at a time
Loss of Control
By Kathryn Teneyck
she needs to feel
in control
of everything, of something,
of anything.
needs to feel like she gets
a choice
that she can right all the wrongs
and not only right them
but that she can right all the wrongs
right now.
Her brain is screaming “let go”
and she knows she should.
but she keeps desperately grasping
to the control she never had
and her OCD keeps preying
on her never-ending cycle of
out of control
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Teneyk’s book “Too Much” can be ordered on Amazon.
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