Her heart knows this man from long before, passed years,
nearly a thousand since then.
Like a storm he raided—
burning her home,
stealing her virginity and leaving,
as if it were his right to take her known life away.
Karen Daniels turns fifty this year (2007). She came to motherhood late in life and now has a three year old daughter and twenty month old twin boys. She has a B.A. in Psychology and is currently working on her masters in Educational Psychology.