Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows reflects a time in my life when, struggling with depression, I found the capacity to drift through each day by writing about my visions of life with the internal conflict of hiding my emotions from family and friends, hiding this inner turmoil consuming my thoughts and my outward smiles and bright eyes facade for others to see. My poems in my first collection, Behind the Shadows, are fictional, created by an empathy for the human condition of many different issues of soci...