by Mona Alexondra

Created on: November 03, 2008

"Like an abused woman not able to escape fists of anger I stayed; allowing the madness of it all wear me down, take control of me until there was no me left at all and all I did was exist, accepting the fact that this life was the best that I deserved." Copyright 2001 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Not a great life from the words of it but sometimes that's what a lot of us are faced with and so much more. Abuse, mental or physical, no one to cry out to or share a laugh with, no hope of ever getting away- that is why I started writing: to escape the sorrow and loneliness in my own life. To many that know me I am an optimistic soul. One of the reasons my husband fell in love with me is because I always see the good in something. To the people besides him that really know me, my poetry is harsh- my husband calls it dark; but to me, it is often the light.

I've survived much abuse, mostly mental, through my writing. I've had years where there was no one to talk to- I moved around a lot as a kid through to my late 20's. I was alone a lot so I wrote. Some of my best love stories are about a love I never had and never even knew but those love stories gave me hope for something better. My dark poems are expressions of the moods that I was in every time I hurt- when I was ignored by a lover, shunned by a friend, prejudiced by a stranger. Writing helped me through the bad times as well as the alone times and because of it, I had much happier times.
I am a firm believer that we shape our own destiny in ways that few people believe- we dream about our future in the past and dj vu does occur and writing, well writing helps to ease the pain and sorrow of a bad life as well as foretell the good. Many of literature great writers have also used life's little destiny's, and their experiences, to tell stories to the world.
Why do I continue to tell my stories to the world by writing? Simply because of the feelings that it evokes and helps to express- love and passion for the special someone in my life, anger over a day gone sour, even hate and sadness for the world that we live in. To me, I am part of the single most important thing this world can depend on- I tell stories to the world, therefore, I am a writer; I write from the experience in my life and in those lives around me whether it be cards, novels or poems, good, bad or indifferent. I help people dream and love, laugh and cry and because of writing, I am a survivor.

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