About the Book

What could make a person become a poet? It wasn’t my first idea, originally I wanted to be an archeologist specializing in Egyptology when I was in middle school I studied everything I could about the culture the history and even how to read hieroglyphs but for all my studies and hard work fate had a twist to throw into my well planned life, I developed seizures at the age of 14 which got worse when I turned 15. I was shaken to the core when my doctor said that I would have to change my dream because my medication would be unavailable where I wanted to attend college in three years. I started going to the school library and reading Edgar Allen Poe and all mythologies that I could get my hands on. Even after all my seizures I can still remember my love for myth and legends even if the rest should come back in pieces like a puzzle. I took a creative writing course in high school and that is when I found that I have a true spark for writing poetry. watched many friends graduate including my high school sweetheart but I kept working for my diploma until I received it in 2004. Now though my seizures are not controlled and none of my doctors know what causes them I write to keep the worries at bay and because I love to write. If you are going through the same thing or just a health issue that you don’t know how to cope with you just need to focus and remember even the small dreams come true if you help them.

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What could make a person become a poet? It wasn’t my first idea, originally I wanted to be an archeologist specializing in Egyptology when I was in middle school I studied everything I could about the culture the history and even how to read hieroglyphs but for all my studies and hard work fate had a twist to throw into my well planned life, I developed seizures at the age of 14 which got worse when I turned 15. I was shaken to the core when my doctor said that I would have to change my dream because my medication would be unavailable where I wanted to attend college in three years. I started going to the school library and reading Edgar Allen Poe and all mythologies that I could get my hands on. Even after all my seizures I can still remember my love for myth and legends even if the rest should come back in pieces like a puzzle. I took a creative writing course in high school and that is when I found that I have a true spark for writing poetry. I watched many friends graduate including my high school sweetheart but I kept working for my diploma until I received it in 2004. Now though my seizures are not controlled and none of my doctors know what causes them I write to keep the worries at bay and because I love to write. If you are going through the same thing or just a health issue that you don’t know how to cope with you just need to focus and remember even the small dreams come true if you help them.