Poetry and/or writing came into my life as a means to aid me through my misery, agony, sadness, sorrow, despair, suffering, torment, torture, depression... basically any pain inside. over the years my writing changed to what it is now. people who love poetry tell me how great my material is and thus, I figured it was life's way of showing what I should do with my life... "to write this poems and with them, paint beauty with the ashes." Sincerely Isaiah Barber