I am a native Texan, an American Native from Aztec decendants. Mostly called "Mexicans," a vile misconception by people who are ignorant of my culture.I am author of three published litigation manuals, award winning poet, and am working on my lastest book, "JOURNEY INTO MY SOUL." I have been working on this novel for ten years and am finally reaching completion. It is a custom of mine to travel to places I've been before to re-live and write of that moment and place of long times past. I am single,a loner if you will,and I write mostly about why most men are or choose to be. I'm a romanic soul. I love the idea of "Love." Having tasted it only once in my life, it is by far the greatest experiance in life I have ever known. I am a spiritual person, and while I do not claim any religion,I do believe in a Creator. Taken from my birth mother on the day I was born,sold for a full tank of gasoline and a twelve dollar beer tab by my grandfather,was a journey I wish I had never taken. There were no laws to protect "Mexican" kids from being abused when I was growing up. I may as well been a dog. I never complained. I grew up beliving that the only way to survive in America was to be "White." I was just a child, I didn't know then that my ignorance was innocent, I didn't know that humans were evil and self-destructing.
I did'nt know then that people didn't hate me as a person, they hated me because of the color of my skin.
It took me fifty years to realize what had happened to my life, but alas, I am at peace.

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FLAME AGAINST THE WIND

Sometimes I stop and wonder how our hearts have been so strong, enduring all the things in life when our world went so wrong.
And all the tears that we have shed, that fell upon the ground, just you and I have felt their pain as they dropped without a sound.
Though in their silence and sparkles gleamed that fell like peaceful rain, they did not fade without the sound as our hearts screamed out the pain.
And through the years the ups and downs have come like things unknown, the quite moments in our lives when our souls felt all alone.
But the time in life is he...

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