Welcome to My World: Real Poems and Letters From an Adolescent

Written by Ezekiel Stephens, Welcome to My World shines a light on mental health and finally speaks his truth for the first time since being out of high school. Throughout his five years of school from eighth grade to senior year is where we read a young man growing up in writing journal entries & prompts throughout the years and expressing how he feels and what he sees from his point of view. Talks about the real issues that are going on within the black youth and is expressing vulnerability as a young man that men don't have a chance to do at his age. From young age trauma to letters to people that he loves the most this book opens up conversation and opens the discussion for everyone to speak their truth and have an open mind.