Purple Eyes

by Shalight Saja

Overview

Purple Eyes is a collection of poetry written during a young woman's healing process after six years of abuse. It is the story of the early stages of her journey toward defining herself by who she wants to be rather than by what has happened to her.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016404530
Publisher:	Rivershore Books
Publication date:	04/13/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	125
File size:	403 KB

About the Author

Shalight Saja is a fighter and chooses to be defined as such. She is an eighteen-year-old survivor of years of physical, emotional, and sexual assault by a familial same-sex perpetrator. Yet she has been blessed by a Father who loves her, friends who support her, and pens lying atop blank paper.
Shalight began writing as an outlet for venting at age twelve. As her understanding of what was happening deepened, so did her love for poetry. Venting became vocalizing, and writing became her tool to explain to herself and others what she has experienced.
Her writings on violence and what it leaves behind are compiled in Purple Eyes.