Bücher von Narayan Persaud

I looked at the mirror withinto see who looked back at meI thought for sure I would see myselfwho else could it bebut the more I look the more I seeyou staring right back at meYour genuine sweet smilethat which is visible from a milethe blissful twinkle in your eyesoblivious to anything else under the skyyour lips beckoning methe more I look, the more I seeThe sunlight reflecting off your hairlike an ocean in which I long to dissolvethe warm glow of your skinmade me forget when it all beginAll reflecting back on memaking my heart warm and soul freeI looked at the mirror withinto see who looked back at meI thought for sure I would see myselfwho else could it beBut the more I look the more I seeyour image that seeped into me

From the age of eighteen, he became a drifter. He moved from a life of drugs, alcohol and crime to homelessness. Along the way, he got married for a few months, and had a daughter from whom he is detached but adores. Still drifting, neither his addiction nor his homelessness could deter him from pursuing what he refers to as the American Dream. He pursued and earned a Bachelors degree in Sociology, and a Masters in Criminology sleeping mostly in and out of homeless shelters, in abandoned buildings and on street corners. Because of his arrest record, and imprisonment as a petty-thief some twenty five years ago, he remains unemployed and homeless, a victim of his past. How he survived it all, he says, it is because he "had some Guardian Angels" along his Homeless path.