Dark Days and Rainy Nights: Poetry Through the Eyes of an American Outcast

 Dark Days and Rainy Nights is a book for all readers. It touches on issues that will relate to the reader on a variety of different levels. This is not your average poetry book. With this book you'll find yourself emotionally engaged as the words create mental pictures for an even deeper impression. It deals with American issue that most choose to keep in the dark.

I often refer to the era in which I was raised in as the coke era. A period in time in which America united to get high. As a youth growing up in Richard Allen projects, located in the slums of North Philadelphia. I often over heard people refer to a crack addiction as a sickness. As an adult, it's not hard to look into the eyes of some of my peers and see that this so called sickness continues to be highly contagious. Inhabiting this sickness has paralyzed thousands if not millions of America's children's chances of success.  Has the decisions of the past forever affected the safe haven of the future?Dark Days and Rainy Nights ask this question and much more. It's up to the reader to not only get the message, but to act on the situation.