In Seeking Solace: For Those Who Have Never Been Loved Well

In Seeking Solace is the raw account of a life lived in search of love. It details a voice that, though most often strangled, continues to cry out to know and be known, to love and be loved well.In Seeking Solace is Peni-El Raphakumwah's first published work. She is a true poet who tells of her most intimate life and love perceptions in poems such as: DaddyLinksCome Home with MeHold Me DownEroticaLove StarvedMy ManWedding DayWritten with Raphakumwah's innate musical sensibilities, Solace reads like a compact disc plays, complete with interludes that masterfully continue the flow of distinct, melodious, and sometimes piercing thought. Quite musical, there is a story here that never breaks its flow or its tumult; not until it reaches placidity in the final hopes of a heart left unscarred in battle, still ambulatory, and moving forward in search of a true, abiding, and everlasting love. In Seeking Solace For Those Who Have Never Been Loved Well but will be.