Often we look at poetry as a jumble of words conveyed in a manner to portray an authors ideals in an elegant manner. We tend to forget the artist was once a child, a teenager, an adult who had to grow up and get a job, find shelter, and maybe with luck, find a mate. These collected poems are a brief window into such a life. This book gives poems that represent different perspectives of one man's life and some of the driving forces that fueled his dreams.