When I Began To Read, I Began

If What I Read Doesn't Reflect My Life - Whether I'm Gay Or Latino Or On Welfare - Doesn't That Really Mean That My Life Is Not Valuable?

Cutting People Out Of Your Life Is Easy, Keeping Them In Is Hard.

Forever In Your Arms Is Where I Want To Be Holding You Close Within The Space That Once Held Only Me... Forever In Your Warmth The Place For Me And You I Feel The Sun Our Life's Just Begun I Know You Feel It Too

And What I Was Feeling Was The Wonder Of Being More Than Me, Of Being More Than Mere Here And Now Allowed I Had Become A Shining Star, A Burning Nova Exploded With Love Flying Through An Endlessly Expanding Universe Away From The Me That Was Toward A Me That Is Beyond Understanding.

I Couldn't Speak Well. I Went To Speech Therapy For 10 Years. And I Was Sort Of Frustrated In That Sense.