Divine Decree

Divine Decree is the second poetry book by Ella Zelensky. To know this is a book that people will be holding in their hands is beyond incredible to Ella, as this book was a difficult and daunting one to publish because it's an insight into what happened to her personally, and things that have happened to others.

Compelled to write her experiences down, therapeutic in its process, Ella realised that it especially served as an educational tool to inform people that these experiences can and do happen. Some people do, unfortunately, take their lives in circumstances like the ones she and others went through as detailed in this book, and a lot of people don't see more than the classroom appearance or the bus pickup in the afternoon of those who have left us. We have probably walked past someone who had no one to sit with, who was on their way to hide in the library or in a toilet stall. Someone who was hurting. and even living their last day. These situations exist, and people themselves exist.

So fortunate to have recovered from that time all on her own, because deep down, Ella knew she didn't want to not be here anymore. Rather, Ella wanted to change the 'here' a lot of us don't want to be in to a 'here' we love and savour. Her dream to be a humanitarian worker largely comes from all the people she has met in her life, the struggles she has faced, as well as her familial heritage, hobbies, and academic studies. From the time we were pinning name cards to our shirts and learning the alphabet all the way to our adulthood. It always inspired this question for Ella: why do people treat each other the way they do? But more importantly: and how can we fix it?