THE GLASS CHILD

CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

 

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Songwriter.  Author.  Dreamer. Wanderer.

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    Empty Roads & Broken Bottles;

    in search for

    The Great Perhaps

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    “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

    I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.”

     

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    "There are people who gravitate toward music for the recognition, those who do it for the financial glamour, and then there are the rare souls who simply breathe music out like it's air. Swedish native Charlotte Eriksson is one of them. Under the moniker The Glass Child she composes stirring songs that never feel forced, nor diluted in any way. They simply are."

     

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    Charlotte's books have been widely shared and embraced by like-minded communities such as To Write Love On Her Arms, The Artidote, Wordporn and The Good Quote, wracking up hundreds of thousands of likes, shares and comments on each post. Writings and poems from the books have been published on sites such as Thought Catalog, Rebelle Society, Bella Grace Magazine and Open Minds Quarterly.

    Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself
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    Growing up is a wonderful thing to do
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    You're Doing Just Fine
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    Prose & Poetry
    from a past that was never present
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    Another Vagabond Lost To Love
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    Berlin Stories & Travel Essays
    on leaving & arriving
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    Empty Roads & Broken Bottles;
    in search for The Great Perhaps
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    The journey of leaving my home to dedicate

    my life to my art

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    I'm messy and I'm organized and I'm still trying to piece my own self together. I can't sleep at night because how could I close my eyes when there's a whole world out there, calling my name, waiting to be explored. I love intelligent conversations while laying on empty streets at 5am in the morning, and I love watching the sun rise over a world that is still asleep. I make mistakes and I mess up a lot, but I'm trying to learn how to be okay with that. Some days I couldn't care less about what all of you think about my art because this is my life and all I have. But then there are days when all I want is to be beautiful and good enough and someone to count on. Someone to like and love and believe in. I just really want to mean something to someone.

     

    I believe in the future, for I have seen yesterday and I'm still alive. I laugh a lot and I believe in the beauty in small things. Like the coffee in the morning with someone you love, road-trips to nowhere and oceans. I love people who are curious and careless, because I want to be curious and careless and even though I'm mostly guarded, mostly shy, what I really want is to hug every single person I meet and ask them a thousand questions about their definition of a life lived well and if they've ever been in love and how they could go on when that love disappeared, because I am struggling. People fascinate me because I can't seem to understand them, and they rarely understand me. The way they can live and breathe and simply be, when I can't even look myself in the mirror without questioning every line, every expression and people’s perception. I remember every single word from conversations and I have a whole box of unsent letters to myself and every person I've ever met.

     

    When I was 18 I moved all on my own from my home in Sweden to London to become the person I wanted to be, and create a life that made me excited to wake up in the morning. After a year in solitude with my mind and my music, I packed light and spent a year homeless on the road, dedicating my life to my art and music, determined to tell the world about it. I went everywhere and nowhere. Spent nights on the concrete, had beautiful conversations with strangers and walked foreign streets every day. I learned how to build my home in my music and my art. When I sing or write, I'm not scared anymore. I just want to mean something to someone because every person I meet means the world to me and I just wish to belong. I just wish to be me and be loved for that. I believe that if you want something bad enough, you can always find a way to get it. I love challenges because I'm here to prove myself and other people wrong.

     

    I still don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way, and I'm giving my life to this journey.

    My life is this journey.

    I wanted to turn my life into art, my very existence into a poem.

    It might not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful. 

     

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        5am
        again,
        drunk on someone else’s love,
        or couch,
        and I’ve never felt more at home.

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        I fled myself,
        from the life I’ve built
        because I’ve been inhabiting routines I don’t want to stand for.

        Inhabiting skin I’d rather shed
        but still took on
        like a soldier serving his country,
        for that’s what they told me to do.
        But I was not
        strong
        or wise,
        but young and foolish,
        for what is this thing? Trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance,

        and I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
        with clean blood
        and organised drawers.
        I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
        at night when no one else is alive,
        or awake,
        however you choose to see it,
        and I live in my own flames.
        Sometimes burning too bright and too wild
        to make things last 
        or handle
        myself or anyone else
        and so I run.
        Run run run,
        far and wide
        until my bones ache and lungs split
        and it feels good.
        Hear that, people? It feels good,
        because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
        and I wish to do with it exactly as I please,
        and living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times,

        because I never volunteered to take this on.

        The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,
        the forever on going task of explaining this and that,
        and why I don’t want to look like this and
        be like that
        but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.
        If this is the place I’ve been given, I’m sure as hell gonna make this work.

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        So I fled the me that was never really me and I’m on my way. To newer lands and uncleaned streets
        for I’ve had enough of childish safety in comfort.
        Enough of all telling me to look and do, like this and that,

        and I never meant to please anyone but myself
        and you can call me selfish,
        throw words like knives in the dark but I will not listen,
        for not listening to sharp words brought me to where I am today
        and I believe in the path I’ve been given. If my only task in this life is to walk it,
        I surely will walk it
        prouder than anyone else.

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        If this is the path I’ve been given, I will walk it
        prouder than anyone else,
        for no one else can.

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        // from my book You’re Doing Just Fine ☾

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