There’s a voice deep inside getting stronger every day. I cannot deny the message these urgent words proclaim. Why bother?

I am seven years old. My brother is ten. The beating was brutal. My brother is recovering conscious… I believed he was dead.

Who am i to bare my soul with thee… and challenge all that you believe… I share from deep within my being as if my father speaks through me. I see these words of love and merc…

Seems no way out, but deep within. There’s a resonant voice calling from the depths of my being; I am not what you imagine me to be…

I commit myself to God; sometimes, not often. I believe in God; sometimes,

trust the one who seeks the truth doubt the one who says he’s found…

Ideas and notions, they’re all for the dreamers, worth as much or less than one's considered opinion. You can’t even wrap fish in them.

There are no pictures on these wal… no mountain lakes nor sailing ship… Not long ago there were no walls Life was lived outside your window… I’d tried to live within four wall…

Not a poem. I hurt; like a Frankenstein monster. Iron fist. Unrelenting.

These words, gently laid upon this page, amount to my sincere prayer they reach within you, and touch your secret self,

I gaze into the bleakness of the e… engulfed by a sense of futility an… I am like the man who keeps fishin… though he knows the river is spent… I cast my line into the milky pool…

How does a landed mariner ever tell a living soul about the exquisite rapture of the sultry siren’s song ? As it echoed through the mist,

I hold truth as the highest princi… I am a liar. I value honesty over all else. I am a thief. I expect integrity from you.