In Vilynprakah, Nadirah Alford taps into some of the most painful moments of human experience and contrasts them with deep longings for love, hopes, dreams, and high expectations. She leads us on a quest for balance and satisfaction, while providing us with courage and strength. Alford beautifully illustrates how the delicate human spirit can survive traumatic events and become more resilient. Poetry flows directly from the author's heart. Alford's emotions and thoughts pour forth in a passionate manner, as in her poem "Eight Pieces" Eight Pieces Just some girl who looks like her mother
But cannot live without her cover
Pieces that has been broken needs to come back together
Like glass or a crossword puzzle
Something full of mass
Life been tough, too much aggravation and no satisfaction
Attitudes flying and angers rising
Forced apart a puzzle of eight
Pieces scattered, I cannot live without them
My eight piece puzzle
Each piece is important to the other
But now they are separated
Years trying to set the pieces back together
The puzzle is like a life force with each piece missing it's weaken
It's tearing down flesh
It's tearing down blood
It's separating strength
Causing tears of flood