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[the-passionate-hooligan]

"The Beautifully Grim"- by BT 2020 photo by BT 2022.

At times I cling to, attach myself to, what causes me pain and get desperate to kiss my trauma. As if it's showing me affection but yet I resent it and have an uncontrollable urge to attack it and hurt. At times, more than most, I have been the breaker of my own heart

Currently writing the manuscript to tell my story from NYC delinquency. To an aspiring career in veterinarian medicine. Then an exceptional 15 year duty as an Airborne Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret. Suddenly to years of incarceration and loosing damn near everything. Being thrown back into a world strange and beautiful having to find self and purpose. Innocent childhood and rebellious youth. Falling in love and finding hate. A  compassionate and humane lively hood and a violent numbing occupation. Desperation for love, romance and stability but purging on the darkside of impulsive behaviours and hazardous risks. A story of war and armed conflict transitioning to the battlefield that is incarceration. Being controlled by isolation and fears to an awaking of self on the rise journeying down my intended path. Death, grief, drugs,alcohol, sex, romance, desire, firefights, marriage, fatherhood and family.  Including my pieces of poetry I wrote through the years which also act like a timeline of trauma. - BT

[the-passionate-hooligan]

I have to practice self involvement and accountability more. Start with myself then work my way out. Not the other way around. I could be missing the toxin that poison’s me. Practice this as well as gratitude often. I stand to loose a magnificent person. A pillar of support and love. You know who you are. Shot out to Jersey!!!! “The Space Between Us” - ©BT2022

[the-passionate-hooligan]

The road I walk, is the road I built. Why make it a self inflicted wound? There is beauty along the way. The dark allows me to see more than the light could. Only if I listen. #beautifulthroughcombat #poetry #veteranartist #veteran #loveyourself #art #expression #mentalresilience #emtionalintelligence #followｍe https://www.instagram.com/p/CfIixEEN4PP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the-passionate-hooligan]

Only a few know. Do not judge yourself.

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“A Call to my Angels”

I will send my message to them any way I can. They will hear me one day.

Photo and words by Passionate Hooligan

[the-passionate-hooligan]

Former US Army Special Forces/Airborne Ranger now using my love of creative arts to tell my story of my traumas and struggles while hoping to reach combat veterans who have their gifts to show the world. We use our darkness to come into the light.  Instagram: @portrait_of_a_painful_poetry