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Dear Son | Paige Cooper | TEDxYouth@Harlow


and I wish you could have seen the way
your father smile before he met me
sadness is different when you’re sad you
can tell yourself tomorrow be ok then
wake up depression is a demon when
you’re depressed you can tell yourself
to be ok then wake up to your demon
bacon burnt biscuits happiness is
different when you’re happy you can tell
yourself today would be awesome then
enjoy yourself
mania is an angel when you’re maniac you
can tell yourself today will be awesome
then enjoy yourself until your angel
loses her grip the best days are the
worst days and the worst days are the
best days when you can’t tell if you’re
slightly maniac or slightly depressed so
you just call the days you don’t know
normal until your psycho above heaven or
you’re buried below hell son I think too
much for my own good and I stay inside
much longer than I should and my mind is
the worst place I can think of my mind
is an ocean in the sky without water
with trees for clouds my poetry comes
from men in nurses gasping for their
last breaths of stanzas and they all
have my face there’s a temp to 25%
chance that one day you’ll read these
words and know exactly what it feels
like to eat burnt biscuits and fly as
angels I stopped praying a long time ago
but when I forgot what the sunlight
looks like I pray for you
I pray that I won’t cause you any more
trouble would then I already have and I
pray that one day your dad finds us more
he showed me because when I saw it I
how’d you feel still in there
Paige was absolutely nervous beforehand
she was of all of them maybe apart from
our performer the most nervous because
one of the things you’re doing you are
to write something and then sort of
speak it is one thing but to write a
poem and there’s so personal and so
special and deliver it is something and
then to do it without notes without
reading so from memory yeah it’s
something incredibly special as well
what drives you to write poetry where
you could be doing other things it’s
like I don’t know I just have time to do
it and he like helps me unwind it helps
you I was gonna say how do you feel when
she written the poem just relax yeah
it’s like journaling if I like writing
your journal and do you do a journal as
well is it just no it’s just that’s your
way that’s your way to just let it just
let it all out
yeah and and this is a question creative
people like you are asked a lot of the
time where do where do your ideas come
from and you decide writing letters
because a sound was saying people don’t
young people especially don’t tend to
write a letter these they said white
this idea of the letter writing there’s
a poetry where did that come from it’s
like direct and you can make connections
with it that connection that’s very good
you use a phrase have you got your poem
there okay that’s brilliant and there’s
a phrase about the broken biscuits about
wake up and there and your demons make
what’s the furnace get but what’s the
whole line can you remember
mmm wake up’s your demon bacon burnt
biscuits you wake up to your demon
baking burnt biscuits there is so much
poetry so the alliteration the novelty
of that particular line the demon bait
not just making any old biscuit baking
the bird biscuits you can smell that
line that’s just absolutely wonderful
poetry and I think page has got a huge
future ahead of her as a poet because
that was absolutely stunning and well
done for overcoming your own demons and standing here brilliant page
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