While attending a technical college, l was suffering from major depression and was homeless in transitional housing. Also, over an 18-month period, I lost 12 loved ones, including my baby sister, Phyllis, and my mother, Luvenia. I was on deferred adjudication probation with Dallas County for a crime I didn't commit, only by association. Without realizing it, I started a self-proclaim therapy by writing poems to release myself from the anguish. I hope you find relief in these writings as I do!!