Just Poems

This Book These Poems Were Written During Four Confusing And Painful Years That Began With The End Of A 30-Year Marriage Then Sudden Loss Of A 17-Year Career Due To A Mental Breakdown And The Result Of Destructive Addictions. It Depicts A Search For Meaning In The Interaction Of Self Life And Divinity. Just Poems Is A Journal Of Mental Illness Depression Self-Harm (Cutting) Alcoholism Suicide And Abusive Relationship And Spiritual Crisis. It Is Not All Darkness Though. Two Sections Of The Book Contain Various Random Poems Of A More Lighthearted Nature. . These Are Not My Poems. They Belong To You The Reader. How You Respond To A Poem What It Means For You Is Your Experience That Is Different Than My Experience Writing It. Also They Do Not Exist Unto Themselves. Each One Is Like A Tree Unaware That It Is. When A Poem Is Ready For Birth It Talks To Me And I Write It. It Is Just A Poem Like A Tree Is Just A Tree. There Are No Good Or Bad Treesjust Trees Just Poems.