I grew up all over Illinois. My life experiences contribute to my poetry and now I would like to provide you the opportunity to share some of those experiences with me. Some of you may relate to it and some of you may not, we all have different situations that occur in our lives as we grow up but I would love the chance to share mine and hopefully inspire and make my readers hopeful that we can make it through anything if we try hard enough. Everything I wrote came from a real life situation that I personally went through, I know I am not the only person out there that has been through the things I talk about in the poems and I know that if I would have read something like these poems back when I was going through everything they would have really touched home base with me, I know that someone out there will relate and find hope or even peace in the comfort that someone lived through the very thing they think is killing them at the moment.