Sarah nyc• Show poetry

"Nichts ist dauernd, als der Wechsel; nichts beständig, als der Tod. Jeder Schlag des Herzens schlägt uns eine Wunde, und das Leben wäre ewiges Verbluten, wenn nicht die Dichtkunst wäre."
(Nothing is permanent but change; nothing constant but death. Every beat of the heart inflicts a wound, and life would be an endless bleeding, were it not for poetry.)
-Börne

* * *

My name is Sarah. I'm a lyric soprano; I study classical voice focusing on opera. Currently, I am a voice performance major at CUNY College of Staten Island. I live for music. My dream is to be a principal soprano at the Metropolitan Opera House of NYC. On my own, I'm a folk/jazz/blues vocalist, guitarist, and a writer of poetry & prose.

To me, writing is the most tangible thing in the world. I see it, and I feel it. I wouldn't have it any other way. My personal belief is that simplicity is the key to writing. Words from deep down inside a writer are more valuable then all the wealth in the world. It's as if a piece of us sits out on display; one gives up an integral part of all he or she has come to know to share and teach others.

These are pieces of me, for you.

* * *

LITERAL

when they said he could walk on water
what it sounds like to me
is he could float like a butterfly
and sting like a bee
literal people are scary, man
literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world
of its poetry
while getting it wrong fundamentally
down at the church of "look,
it sez right here, see!"

-Ani Difranco

- - -
I DO NOT LOVE YOU EXCEPT BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.

-Pablo Neruda

- - -
"...impartial are our eyes and ears." Shakespeare, King Richard II