This book contains the thoughts, memories, dreams, hopes, and desires that have been dwelling within my psyche for the greater portion of my life. With works spanning the last two decades, the myriad of emotions, through which you will be taken, will surely give rise to something inside each of you. Whether you are the hopeless romantic whose heart weeps daily for that which you may never have, or if you are the jaded and jilted lover whose heart has been shattered into countless pieces, or even if you are just the broken down pile of flesh and bones we all succumb to being eventually, you will relate to something inside. Each of these very words has been torn from my battered and beaten soul with one purpose, and that is to enlighten the world with an experienced perspective. If but one of my words can inspire change in a lone individual then I know my life has meaning.