Poems About My Self-Esteem

This book of poetry was birthed out of my first teaching assignment of students with special needs in a New York City Public Elementary School September 1996. As a young person I can remember having a passion for helping people who are less fortunate based on my own life experience of overcoming an emotional and abusive childhood. The memory of my first day of teaching will forever be in my mind of having an almost fatal experience of losing one of my eyes because of a flying chair that hit the wall just as I opened the classroom door of 15 students who appeared to be very angry and fearful.