When I Began To Read, I Began

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?

Cutting People Out Of Your Life Is Easy, Keeping Them In Is Hard.

If What I Read Doesn't Reflect My Life - Whether I'm Gay Or Latino Or On Welfare - Doesn't That Really Mean That My Life Is Not Valuable?

I Talk To Myself Out Loud At Times, And Feel Embarrassed When People Overhear Me.

Each Of Us Is Born With A History Already In Place