Jared Rivas

The Heart and The Mind That Drives One's Madness Jared Rivas

In this coming-of-age collection of poems, the author, Jared Rivas, delves into the type of poetry he typically writes at this stage of his life. More specifically, he notes the stark differences in the poems that come from the heart and the poems that develop as a result of his thoughts. In life, people are presented with decisions that can either be made based on the desires of your heart or your mind. With this particular assemblage of poems, Rivas dives head-first into himself to uncover a string of experiences that reflect hard-to-swallow concepts like the issues of adolescence, mental illness, mood swings, unrequited love, the ascent into adulthood, infatuations and ignored social commentaries.