Blue Crayon is a collection of poetry and prose about mental health and endurance. Rowen Ingrid Parker explores the themes of love, emotional battles and survival in this moving and powerful collection of poems. I told her that when I feel like self-harming instead of scratching myself with my nails or paperclips I like to run a blue crayon across my skin she smiled a small smile because she thought that I had found a way to stop but when I told her that my scars were the crayon's doing she lowered her head and cried