Author: Zixuan Xu

Zixuan Xu writes about how sometimes being a female in modern day society comes with a lot of expectations, but not a lot of respect.

The poem ‘sketchbook’ is about the concept that one’s life is very similar to a book, filled with different stories, or a sketchbook, filled with different drawings. Sometimes we feel as if we are incomplete, or we lack a purpose in our lives, which is a very frustrating emotion especially when others don’t fully understand, and this is translated into a metaphor in the piece. Zixuan Xu writes.

Zixuan Xu writes of perseverance and the labels given to us by the world.