A collection of poetry that explores the authors psyche going from Adolescence, to war, to returning home a lost and broken soul, and then championing life. I wanted to structure this book in four parts, White, Red, Black and Gold. Each one representing a time period in my life. Like chapters in a book, chapters in life are very real. I went from being homeless, living out of my 1992 Chevy Cavalier taking showers at the beach, to an NCO in the Marine Corps leading Marines in combat, to attempting suicide on my 23rd birthday, to writing and publishing a few books and starting my own business, to becoming a father and now living a beautiful life with my son and his mother. Life has chapters and each stage or chapter in life has lessons to be learned, and events need to be broken down and analyzed for ourselves. If we can see our failures, our successes, our rights, our wrongs and come to terms and face them, we will be better humans in doing so. TAOWP