In 1998, on seeing my enthusiasm to write my first song 'Life is a Full Circle', God said, aha, so you want to write songs, here is something to write about. Almost immediately Pandora's Box ripped opened, and what followed was the dark night of my soul, a decade of unrelenting hardships, a decade of clanging assault on my being: I struggled with my sexuality, braved the war of homelessness and hopelessness, battled the demons of despair and depression, fought hard to come terms with my dysfunctional family, and all the while coping with the pain and shame of being an undocumented American resident (formerly). In the end God made good on his promise, that decade of the dark night of my soul, that decade of unrelenting hardships, that decade of clanging assault on my being, like iron sharpens iron, chiseled out songs which are now the pantheon pillars of my soul. This is my story.