This collection of poems spans a time of my late teenage struggles in the world of a new millennium. With parents both suffering cancer at the same time and a new girlfriend (now wife) having her own massive health struggles but also adding support to a very tumultuous time in my life. I don't know if these poems help understand the meaning of life at all but they certainly were a therapeutic way to take out the emotional garbage that bombarded me. In reflection reading them back it eats at my absolute being how much I have persevered through and still have time to laugh, love and have fun with my kids and wonderful wife now.