Chapter 26: The Transcendent Function

Here marks my first note to you all.

I wanted to give you a look through the lens I’ve been writing from in my 26th year.

My therapist and I speak a lot in the realm of Carl Jung, I’m fascinated by the ways we act, it informs a lot of my writings. When I first learned of The Transcendent Function, I was in the deep trenches of an upheaval of my old life. It reflects the phenomenon of psychic change and development, transitioning from one psychological attitude to another. It perfectly brought light to the shedding of one’s self. A right of passage when moving through very formative years of life when your brain is biologically supposed to be fully cooked.

In the midst of some quarter life changes, news came in that my grandfather only had a few weeks left to live. Nothing mattered much to me in that time. I spent those days frequenting the hospital, spending as much time as i could before our time came to an end. It changed my brain chemistry watching someone i looked up to my whole life welcome in death with grace and ease. He never wavered from the moment he first held me to our last. What a gift it was hold him in his last moments.

I’ve been a faucet of words and feelings I haven’t been able to turn off, recording the unravelling of me. I hope you enjoy these next chapter of poems, the end of many eras.

-CB