Jeffery Brown

Pain That Lies Within...is a sequence of events that's taken place in many of our cities today. Young boys and girls are being molested and raped and nothing is being done to perpetrators. The kids don't feel like they have a friend, due to the people who supposed to love them, are the ones hurting them. Thousands of kids are abused in the world and many are even lured into sex trafficking without the fear of being caught. Murdered, abused, and raped or a forgotten vision of the United States courts. Every two minutes, a woman is raped and the rapist doesn't see or spend a day in jail. It must stop and we can stop it, if we just show Cindy and young boys and girls they do have a friends and a way out. Cindy's horrific events caused her to reject society and reject love. Cindy abandoned her faith and religion and became numbed to how she was living. Cindy just couldn't deal with her past. These peculiar situations always keep kids from being productive citizens.

A contest was held. The theme was "Poetry Is Life". Out of the many Poets who answered the call, one was chosen as the grand prize winner and eight were chosen as honorable mentions. They represent diverse backgrounds and different viewpoints but all are talented and skilled in the art of poetry. Poet Speak Magazine presents to you the work of those nine gifted Poets. As an added bonus, several poems written by our two Editors are included at the end of this collection.

A contest was held. The theme was "Poetry Is Life". Out of the many Poets who answered the call, one was chosen as the grand prize winner and eight were chosen as honorable mentions. They represent diverse backgrounds and different viewpoints but all are talented and skilled in the art of poetry. Poet Speak Magazine presents to you the work of those nine gifted Poets.

We all live our lives in varying degrees of satisfaction, fulfillment, success, love and happiness and even sanity at times but the one thing we all search for whether it is voiced or not is More...