FAMILY UNRAVELED

My book opened up a world I didn't know lived within me. I was forty years old when I truly connected with the writer and the poet within me. At age eight, I was robbed of the right to love, like rand espect me for me. I came to know bullying, racism, unacceptance, disconnect. And definitely what allowed one to be accepted or not be accepted. I hid a lot behind my smile and Laughter but when the rain would fall, My God it fell, nothing of of my life mattered, my voice meant nothing. So now I shall speak and be heard. I made my family my life, had God not thrown me out a lifeline, the writer in me would've never survived and I would have never loved me.

-- Mildred Jones