Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.

Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time-to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will you do with your time on this Earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?