Book excerpt: Silence is the language many of us speak. It is often the language we resort to when we hurt. However, those feelings we are ashamed to share, the emotions that crush us, even the fantasies that keep us afloat, bind us in a universal experience. Once you decide to open up, there is no limit to what you can create. I hope this collection of poems can be that very beating of wings that generates an unprecedented sequence of events in your life. Speak your words!