Talking In The Dark

Talking In The Dark is a poetry memoir about childhood, relationships, and self-realization. Billy Merrell's poetic account of his life is a tapestry of colorful imagery of happiness, sadness, fear, shame, understanding, and acceptance. Beautifully strung words both figuratively and literally, convey the writer's emotions in his own book of revelations. 

Poetry itself is universal. In most poems, it is like looking at the mirror.  One could see his own reflection into one of the pages. His, is an ordinary story, told in an extraordinary way. Billy Merrell is a master of words. 

Favorite poem:

Love brings you hope, purpose and resurrection.

And though you say you're not religious minded,

you want to have faith in something daily yours

that brings you joy. What is existence, really,

but the product of one's own belief? If we 

can name it, if we have given it a place

inside us, how could it not be there? Name

one thing more possible, more durable,

more real than people. It is not naive

to recognize existence, something you aren't

sure of --- it is naivete to ignore

the possibility that something might.

Go. Look directly back at it. It will 

still be there. Dare to let the world look back

at you. If we give love a space, a name,

ourselves, there is no end to what we see.

-p. 116 Billy Merrell