If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

I write in a small office at home.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.