These poems were a way of conceptualizing, acknowledging, understanding and releasing overwhelming emotional states through-out some very challenging years of my life. Today I honor them more than I could ever imagine as in retrospect they paint an authentic, heart-warming and amazingly beautiful representation of soul desperately trying to adjust to human qualities. I am grateful for the experiences painful as they were, because their gifts are immeasurable; lessons learned and assimilated expand awareness. I went searching for God and found myself