Dear Creative Writing Instructor reading - Hold the panic button.

Believe me. I too wince at all the cliché poetic imagery in the work above. And yes, if I worked on it, it could absolutely turn into a dynamic, noble and worthy-of-pretentious-esteem poem.

But that isn't what this experience was about.
(In addition, trying to write an 'utterly original' Rite of Passage of the Hero in an Epic Tale is my opinion of a room in Hell.)

This piece is not written to spin your head with literary merit. 

This simply was my blood-letting, rite of passage. It wasn't monumental. 

But, it was entertaining. You should have seen it, like a B-movie actress milking every cheesy drop, I acted it out in ultra slow motion. Oddly enough, I actually managed to conjure up my spirit for an insightful vision quest. 

And when I was done, I was ready to go on to the next page. Hang-ups gone.

And really, let me point out the apparent. If you have read this far into this book sequentially, you already must already know it: I AnyaHard am a full-on, red-blooded American drama queen.

In fact, screw the next page, lets go to the silver screen.