There are many ways to become invisible.

For Bruce Whealton, invisibility began in childhood: in a home where fear replaced comfort, where being quiet was safer than being known, and where emotional neglect shaped the nervous system long before he had words for trauma. By high school, he had become nearly silent, a ghost in his own life.

But this is not only a story of damage.

It is also the story of becoming visible.

A loving spouse. A healer. How does this person cope with evil villains willing to destroy everything?  They convicted the victim... now how does the victim goes on with life as a healer?

This is the story of a life told in poetry—of a boy once invisible who came to feel seen through love, and of a man who lost everything when that love was torn away.

It began when I met Celta, the first person who looked at me as if I was worth loving. Through her eyes, I woke up from the long fog of emotional neglect. After her tragic passing, I met Lynn—my soulmate, my home, my reason to believe that healing was possible.

This book is dedicated to Lynn Denise Krupey and it's about the love we discovered and shared. It's also about my quest to overcome shyness and to find love. What makes things complicated is that I have always been paralyzed by shyness. I was told and it seems to be the case that the guy has to ask the girl/lady out and not the other way around. This seems brutally unfair and problematic for a shy guy. Who came up with that rule anyway? Why?