My name is Candi (no really it is) . I'm 23 years old, and female. I grew up in a poor household with grandparents who spoiled me. My parents divorced when I was 6. My mother moved us away from Texas to Florida where we had noone but her significant other (I guess my other mother) . I left Florida when I was 17. I came back to Texas. I met my 'high school sweetheart' over the internet and after I graduated, he moved to Texas with me. We were married 2 of the 7 years we were together, then we became just another divorce statistic on a paper somewhere. I have done good the past year (since the divorce) , but in August I had a nervous breakdown and attempted suicide. It obviously failed, and I was locked up for a week before they decided I could go home. Since then I'm learning slowly how to live life again, to find some sort of meditation and solace. I'm finding it in my poetry.
There is a wise lady
Who inspires my life.
This sweet woman
Is my uncles wife.
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She waits until evening
When everyone is asleep.
Then she sneaks out the window,
To take her big leap.
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I am bound and broken,
Lying bloody on the floor.
No longer with innocence,
I'd had before.
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A vast array of colors
Lies beneath your feet.
Each tiny grain of sand
Placed perfectly where it should be.
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Once a seedling
Well nourished and fed,
Now a giant elm
In my garden bed.
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