Accept Me As I Am

For longer than I can recall I have had poetry burning its way through my veins. My style has changed over the years as I have grown and developed as a woman, but my heart has never changed. I may have maintained the simplicity of life, but my heart continues to flourish. Please feel free to pull up to a comfortable place in your life, sip a warming cup of tea and walk with me down the pathways of my heart. As you walk I hope you'll allow our souls to become friends because at times we may feel the need to cry together, to laugh together and to share the stories of our hearts. Poetry isn't just for reading, it's for coming into touch with your own soul. I hope you allow the words of my soul to touch yours and show you a brighter picture outside the window to your soul. Much like we have all experienced at one time or another, this is a story told through poetry that follows a woman's emotional investment of the birth, life and death of a love and her struggles to rebuild her heart and soul when love dies. It begins with the meeting of two hearts, travels through the joy of falling in love, the ups and downs of being in love, and getting married. Eventually it wanders the rocky road of one person destroying a grand love, the ending of the relationship, into the depression that so commonly sets in after a love dies. In the end, the survivor rebuilds her self-esteem and respect to become strong and whole again.