Wellbeing Through Arts Series | Lyrics: ‘Angels Wings’ By Diamond Parker

Artist Name : Dia­mond Parker

Age:20

School / Col­lege : Uni­ver­sity of East London

Bor­ough: Lambeth

 

Angel’s wings

I went to heav­en expecting

God to let me in.

Des­cen­ded into the rab­bit hole

of the abyss, instead. Gripped

by the shad­ows of demonic

self – hatred. Not pretty enough.

Not talk­at­ive enough. Weird. Freak.

Ugly was my nick­name. I

kept fall­ing down into the

abyss. Alone in this room.

Loneli­ness and I have

been best friends for a

long time.  My battles were

fought in silence.

No one knew the sadness

in my eyes. They saw

my smile. I became a

Mona Lisa painting.

I had my shield.

Became void and numb.

Became a zombie.

Lost in a world of books

and make beliefs.

Tenth feet under the grave

was sup­posed to be me.

I heard an angel whisper

“Invin­cible, power­ful, strong, boss

ass queen”.

I grew an angel’s wings and flew out

of the abyss.

About Well­being Through Arts

Well­being Through Arts is a series of work­shops focus­ing on the artist­ic devel­op­ment of dif­fer­ent forms of expres­sion to empower and edu­cate. The aim is to provide a safe envir­on­ment where young people can devel­op new forms of com­mu­nic­a­tion and act­ively nur­ture their talent.

ReThink hos­ted our first series of work­shops at it’s Young People Men­tal Health Con­fer­ence Invis­ible Struggles.
https://www.rethink.org/news-views/2016/10/invisible-struggles-its-not-just-a-phase