Why I've been gone for so long...

Hey there everyone,

As you know, I took up a job in the finance industry late last year. I was really trying my best to get everything working and running.

I gave up my nights, I gave up my weekends. I even gave up the only thing that I ever had going for me and that was my writing.

I became lazy, sloppy and most of all weak. Yet, throughout all that, there were still people encouraging me. People whom I thought were my friends were all gone now, but suddenly, some people who I never expected to, they kept me going even with a few words of encouragement every now and then.

The turning point came last night, when someone actually made a song out of a poem I wrote. Link is here. It's pretty good and it's based off "Someday I'd like to be a pirate": soundcloud.com/l2p0/pirates

And...it just made me realise that I'd lost track of what I was really chasing. I gave up on my skills and I let them rust, but everyone else out there is still chasing dreams, even if they might seem a little far off.

So...I got out my old notebook, put on my rap hat and I decided to go right back to the basics, before getting popular on DA, before I'd even started doing serious poetry and I went back to the same urban street style that first inspired me when I was young.

So here I am, I'm back, sorta, I won't be makin' releases all the time, but where I can, I'm going to polish my skills.

I am nowhere near the top now, but I'm glad to have people still look at and read my works and I will be trying hard to put meaning in every single line and verse.

I don't want to take the quick route to fame, tugging on cheap emotions using poems that are as short as possible so people can avoid the pain of having to read. I'm going to go for the long rap verses that I've always wanted to do and as soon as I can afford a microphone, I'm going to be doing acapella raps for all of you (because I have no idea how to make beats, nor do I have the talent for it).

I'm a far-cry from who I once was, but I'll be making the journey back, you can bet on it!

-Chenbeard the Pirate