What do you get when come across someone who has a childlike innocence and a dark world of hurt? The answer is Jackie Walker. She has a strong heart for those important to her. She introduces to those important people the simple things that are most forgotten. Even though she is a positive person around those whom she cares for it doesn't mean everything in her life is positive. Facing ridicule, abandonment, harassment, and her own low self-esteem brings up a different side to her story. Five important people in her life learn what they can to understand her. In the process of understanding her, does that also change their life in some way as well? Can five different individuals with five different personalities open their minds to another possibility how to live their own life from an influence of one girl?

What do you get when come across someone who has a childlike innocence and a dark world of hurt? The answer is Jackie Walker. She has a strong heart for those important to her. She introduces to those important people the simple things that are most forgotten. Even though she is a positive person around those whom she cares for it doesn't mean everything in her life is positive. Facing ridicule, abandonment, harassment, and her own low self-esteem brings up a different side to her story. Five important people in her life learn what they can to understand her. In the process of understanding her, does that also change their life in some way as well? Can five different individuals with five different personalities open their minds to another possibility how to live their own life from an influence of one girl?

It's not easy to express true pain, and suffering to others. Being a teenager and making your way up to young adult life has its share of obstacles. Along the way there are many lessons learned, and many deep feelings that don't have the needed closure. Understanding and acceptance is what can make everything better. These are a collection of poems that were written from the hardest memories of High School until the last year of college.