In his own words: I am allowing myself to speak without constricting phrases or couplets, for it is mine to write every agonizing endeavor the poet must endure. The poet's first and foremost duty is to destroy ourselves- for we have no personality to express, yet only a means of annihilating our fears and desires. The poet is vulnerable, this we know, this we hate- this is the reason we write. We overcome our fears by revealing our own vulnerability. Therefore poetry is not a means of communication or expression or any type of proclamation of love- yet poetry is the spontaneous eruption of rawness renovated into a form of eloquent diction to transcend ourselves into the next frontier of human emotion. Poetry is a means to an end, and a passage to new beginnings. My name is Matthew York, I've grown up half my life in Trenton, New Jersey and the second half in Woodstock, Georgia. I am a poet and a novelist, if you've liked my poem or my notes than email me at MYork3@hotmail.com. I would also like to say thanks deeply to Omar Azam for helping to make my dreams come true, and featuring some spectacular works in his journals and website.