STRUGGLE IN THE FLAME OF DESPAIR: Rising from the Ashes of Pain and Despair

This book is not about pity. It is about perseverance.

It is proof that despair does not get the final word.
Faith does.
I did not escape the fire
unchanged.
The flames took names,
took dreams,
took the version of me
that believed suffering was brief.
But they did not take my breath.
They did not take my will
to stand in the smoke
and call myself alive.
I am what remains
after despair has spoken.
Scarred, yes
but still burning.