TimileyinArts World

A selfie with my older self Looking back and forward, she knows what the camera shows she knows whose face is in her selfie she sees the woman once hidden in a girl She sees herself years ahead Her past reflected her present self Her present mirrors in parts her future self Her grey revealed on a girl's head Her pout for a selfie with grandma HER Girl, do all you can now! Girl, work out the beauty within! Woman, keep not the girl away from this shot! Woman, never forget she was you! Lady! young lady!! Old lady!!! ... She is fluid, She is you. she is anyone, she is everyone. -TimileyinArts-

THE PHOENIX You can be who you set your mind to be and not who the society has named you. As a young child growing up, I was a coward and very timid. My academics suffered as well as my social life. I got scorned repeatedly and compared to others, as good-for-nothing. This affected my self esteem and made me shrink. I wanted to be more but couldn’t share with anyone. At some point, I thought death would be the answer but I had no strength to kill myself. I discovered the art of drawing and I made it my confidant. For everything I feel, from fear, anger, love to strength, I draw. This art is significant to my rebirth. The splash of water shows I’ve been purified and that I have channeled my fear into what I love doing and I have become more. It’s a cry back at the society, that you can only try to shrink me but I’m a Phoenix that will continue to rise. I know many share the same past, but I hope you rise stronger like I did! -TimileyinArts-