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I wrote my first poem when I was twelve years old. I remember nothing about that poem, only that it sparked a fire in me that up till then had not existed. I wrote for survival, escape, and to express the truth of my life that I buried in the daily silence of my chidlhood home. I survived those around me, and most of all I survived myself. The poemes in Depleted Lilies are the first of a torrent of release. I was poor, living in a shack of a home, spending countless hours on the streets, and alone with my demons. I wrote constantly, freely and with no concern about anything but the truth in life as I saw it and lived it. I once told my father that I wanted to be a poet when I grew up. He told me that I could never make a living as a poet, and he may have been right, but I have become a poet, if nowhere else but in my own soul and spirit, my childhood dream is a reality.