Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry is the ability to put life's experiences into a vivid picture and tell that story. One morning, I woke up and realized that I had just lost the love of my life. I was young and stupid and I allowed that loss to take over. In the end the pain was overwhelming. But, thanks to my prayers being answered, before I began to shut down, the source of my pain suggested that I put my feelings on paper. I didn't know what that meant. I didn't realize that I had anything to say. I haven't stopped writing since. This collection is a coming together of a whole lot of pain and a good amount of survival. It tells of lessons learned and the difficulty of getting over the people that we have loved, while showing an appreciation to them at the same time because they taught us. As crazy as that sounds every experience is one to learn from, good or bad. I always say I have no regrets in my life, because I know that I am learning from everything and everyone who has affected me. Once I began to flow, it wasn't just about that love but about all of my loves from men to family, poetry, and me. My poetry is a powerful thing, having the realization that all of these things are worth sharing with the world. To my parents who showed me the way, my brothers who always told me right from wrong, my friends who allowed me to cry on their shoulders, my teachers who changed my life, my loves who added pieces of knowledge to my heart with every break up and every I love you. Everyone is a part of this gift. Thoughts Inside: Me. The book chronicles the life and times of me, the deeper reflections of my life and the way that I see things that have happened to me. It is a dissection of life's experience. The most important thing I want my readers to get from this is hope. Most of them have a hint of beauty. Being loved should be a beautiful thing even if in the end it doesn't work out; you cannot deny that it was a love worth having. It took me a while to be able to self- evaluate situations like that. To be heartbroken and still see how that man touched my life and taught me more than I knew before him. Another aspect of this collection is showing love and respect for my family and the history that has created the strong bond that we share. No one will ever have to wonder how I feel about the people who are closest to me. There are a substantial amount of poems that just express thoughts that I have about life, the world, and the things that are my 3am thoughts. These poems have touched my heart, some make me laugh, some make me shake my head in despair, but they all have relevance in their own way. At the end of all of it, I hope someone else will be touched and be able to relate or at least appreciate the art that I have created. That's the part of writing poetry and being me that I love the most, I want someone else to be touched by reading the words that I have put together in just the right order to create this poetry. Lastly, I grew to a place of acceptance in this collection. Start flowing: take notes, write in a journal, you never know how it will affect you. I challenge all of you to find solace in a good book of poetry. Filled with love, pain, acceptance, recovery, tears, tears, tears, and maybe one day you will reflect back on what it took for you to get through a difficult time in life and you can say I had to get inside the thoughts of ME.
" Just Be"
