Review: Chronic Pain
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2012
This book is a collection of poems Perez wrote as she was "introduced to pain, was married to pain, divorced pain, and remarried a few years later." Perez reminds us, "It is not easy to live with pain, but it is possible."Perez shares her inmost heart.  Her pain-filled cries go out to a God she knows is there even when He seems not to be.  Even when she finds herself drawn back in to relationships and feelings that move her away from a place of safety, she remembers the God who has sealed her to himself.These poems take the reader through betrayal, sorrow and a marvelous comfort as she is pulled from and through what most troubles the soul. In her words are not only brutality and evil, but love and forgiveness.Perez is a former marine and a disabled veteran. She lives in, through and beyond her chronic pain, in ways that will take you to your knees.