Introduction

I started writing many years ago. At first it was just mental therapy for me. My doctor, very great psychologist, told me that if I wrote my feelings down on paper, it would help me feel better and cope with what's bothering me in my head.

My Life and My Poems

I suffered many horrors in my life and I needed a way to cope and live a normal life. Well, my life isn't exactly normal as you will read. And neither are some of my poems. The question for me to ask is, is anyone's life really normal?

I wanted my life to be written so that future generations of my family will know about me and how I became the person I ended up to be. By accident, I realized that I could write poems of many kinds—a guarantee that you will laugh, sometimes cry, and even learn from my poems about how to love, heal, cope, laugh, cry, live, and get through my poems.

Subjects and Purpose

Many of my friends online around the world give me subjects to write about—to be their words for them to speak to others. To help, to heal, to dream, reasons to live, reasons to want to pray, and reasons to not want to die.

I thought to myself that if I'm going to be a writer, I don't want to let one subject go untouched. I want to speak out words that I feel need to be heard through my poems. I want my book to be of help to others for whatever needs they have.

My Hope for You

I pray with my whole heart that you get something good out of what you are about to read. Whether you believe it or not, you will find in my book something that you might need, written in one or more of my poems. The life story is to help you know that your life is better than you may have thought.

In my poems, there is something for everyone—and that means you. My e-mail is written in my book if you would like to write me or even comment on my book. Whether good or bad, happy or sad, I would like to know how you feel.