“Naked Heart”
Before she was old enough to hold a pen in her hand, she knew she wanted to write.
Always making up short stories, learning her alphabet, before going to bed at night.
As a child she remembers picking up books and would pretend that she was reading.
Her imagination writing lines on pages, knowing exactly where her future was leading.
At the age of twelve, rejection from a literary journal, gave her the first taste of defeat.
Depression stopped her writing for years, they duly pulled the rug from under her feet.
After years spent in the wilderness, licking her wounds, massaging her injured pride.
She filled her fountain pen, started writing again, success could not be easily denied.
In life, there are few people born, who know early on, exactly who they want to be.
She is one of those rare people, that can see her future and is shaping her destiny.
Looking at the world quite differently from others, she sees her writing as a work of art.
Counting beauty not as the outer shell of a person, but the beauty of a naked heart.
Copyright 2014 Taun Alaric Richards all rights reserved
