Silent Screams
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dario, Jose, PUBLISHER: Outskirts Press, From the psychologically scar filled battle fields of alcohol fueled dysfunction, to the Transforming Power of facilitator apprenticeship for the Alternatives to Violence Project; his 35-year journey has been a struggle between enslavement and empowerment. He has no collegiate degrees nor official training, but inspired by the paths he has crossed and people encountered, he found the courage to scream. It's Still Here ong>Youong> cut me with ong>youong>r words and bathed in the blood of my wounds with bestial glee, ong>youong> sought to taint my soul with hate and drown me in the sea of ong>youong>r hostility... ong>Youong> laughed aloud at the revelation of dreams and tried to define me through prejudice tinted lenses, ong>youong> encouraged my enslavement to self-imposed shame and promoted my exile to a state of insignificance... With ong>youong>r diseased mind providing the ink ong>youong> left ong>youong>r masterpiece on the canvas of my heart, so thoroughly was I covered by ong>youong>r curtain of uncertainty hat for years, I willingly embraced the dark... ong>Youong> ong>wereong> my tour guide through the pearly gates of pain and ong>youong> gained strength by tasting my tears, ong>youong> sought with every breath to extinguish my flame But... It's still here...