I Wish I Could Give You Something

I Wish I Could Give You Something was written as a token of appreciation to The Giving Tree by the great Shel Silverstein. Shel Silverstein and his poetry books were incredibly impactful on me growing up and are something that I will always hold close to heart. Because of this I like to try my best to implement Shel's style of poetry, writing, and illustrations on my style of writing, that being that it is wacky, weird, discombobulated, and fragmented. I Wish I Could Give You Something is a quote specifically from The Giving Tree which in totality reads "I wish I could give you something but I have nothing left". I love this quote because of how perfectly it sums up the story of a parental figure who gives their child everything they possible can, asking nothing in return. I tried my best to portray the tone a emotions that I felt when I read this is as a child, ending in a reflective manner representing the child in old age finally coming to terms with his life and being contempt to just spend time sitting on the tree stump.