Life Love and Lamenting: Spiritually Speaking

About The Author: Once in the 1990s I watched a movie called The Five Heartbeats. Near the end of the movie the band leader/songwriter portrayed by Robert Townsend makes a statement which before then actually was my catalyst for writing the precursor to most thought provoking insight the foundation of my fledgling flight on the wings of life. I wont quote here however the statement simply put makes the assertion that to be a great writer one must suffer.At the root of all my poetic renderings therein lies sufferage deception lost love and depressive sadness. But in the midst of all this resides God. He makes the unbearable bearable the festive most decidedly joyous and the hopeless hopeful. I have been and continue to be the recepient of Gods unconditional love and care. It has been a journey assuredly heartfelt and one that I could only traverse as we all have a predistination which cannot and should not be altered.I was born in Orange TX the ninth child of Sylvester and Dorothy Marks products of Jeanerette LA. sugarcane farming. My father had a sixth grade education and my mother had only a third education. My mother although unschooled was a woman of great insight had a clear and sound mind a stern yet loving demeanor and with an infectious love of God. Through my writing she yet lives.I am the father of four girls Kiriosha Iris Alexis and Angel. The grandfather of five girls and one boy. I have been a newspaper reporter Spanish teacher school administrator private business owner and continue to be a work of Gods in the process of living life spiritually.