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ShayLynn Blessington

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

3 poems·Since April 2019

I lost both of my younger brothers; years apart but both within 2 weeks of my birthday. I'm a mother of 4 and have been writing since I was 13 years old. I'm a person in long term recovery from drugs and have found writing still helps.