Published author of 300 + poems and one novel. "Butterfly Whispers In Twilight." This author builds self-esteem to the reader inside her poetic creations. These creations reflect personal passions from a fantasy that wants to linger on and push back the reality of those pleasures that keep a fantasy alive. I was giving, caring and couldn't see oftentimes I was being used. Too often I was attempting to fill a void in my heart, a longing to be accepted. Few to many readers need a fantasy in their lives to keep a smile so bright to meet the challenges in today's society that is filled with opinions and criticisms leaving a lasting effect on one's self-esteem. There is always a solution in the problems that face an individual in a life-time. Solutions often result in prayers, patience and reaching out to the professionals in a therapeutic intervention. One should never avoid the help available as the author writes about how writing became her solution not to hold in the pain. I still hold onto my love of music melodies many played a large part of my fantasy. I believed some lyrics from love songs were written for me. My transformation from fantasy to reality was similar to four stages in metamorphosis to a butterfly. My reality had its own platform as the last stage in the curtain call. The curtain was slowly rising, fantasy was slowly fading. The melody playing in the background "Love Don't Love Nobody" written and sang by "The Spinners". It was late in my adult years when I was alone with just my thoughts, pen and paper in the realization that I grew up in a dysfunctional home life believing this was the life all of us should be living. God blessed me throughout my life to travel and feel love from the attention I received from my husband (deceased). We traveled often. It was his inspiration that kept me writing as he connected with a publisher in New York to publish my 1st book of poetry. It was my husband I didn't have to reach far to receive the support I needed from my own family. I was blessed with two sons, beautiful healthy grandchildren including one great-grandchild. The years I spent with them traveling, outings and overnight stays in my home during their infancy, toddler and growing years were the most memorable joyful, loving times. I didn't show any feelings of dysfunction to them from my youth. Rejection for writers comes in many forms. Self-help forced independence on me at an early age. I survived.