The Abcs of Tbi

By Alex M. Scheer

The ABCs of TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) is a collection of poems chronicling the life, challenges, and random thoughts of author Alex Schreer, a person living with a traumatic brain injury. Presented in alphabetical order, this compilation offers two poems for each letter of the alphabet. The poems are arranged with a disciplined approach to rhythm and rhyme that has helped Schreer peer through the fog of his injury and come up with a clearer understanding of what it takes to deal with a life-altering accident.

Schreer was encouraged by these words by Wendell Barry, I have been wakeful at night, and words have come to me out of their deep caves needing to be remembered. He fervently hopes that his words will illuminate the pathway to recovery for TBI victims and their families through poetry. This very personal collection seeks to provide a better understanding of living life with a traumatic brain injury.

No matter where or with whom
Tears are constantly falling
Which signifies gloom and doom
With only sorrow to bring.

And so the sadness is brought
Rarely, good eer comes from it
Try and try, they cannot be caught
To have a fire, must get lit

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462034383

Alex M. Scheer

Alex M. Schreer was born in Brighton, Michigan. For the first twenty-two years of his life, he planned and studied for a career in law, but that all changed on the morning of September 29, 1995, when a drunk driver changed his plans forever altering his life. He now lives in Lake Station, Michigan.

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The ABCs of TBI

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ISBN: 978-1-4620-3436-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4620-3438-3 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011911648

Printed in the United States of America

iUniverse rev. date: 10/21/2011

Contents

Accident

Always Going to Miss

Banging on Heaven’s Gate

Been a Long Time Comin’

Can’t Tell You How Happy

Come On People, Time is Now

Day of Judgment

Dreams Were Shattered

Enough of the Lies

Eyes Are Watching

Finding the Way

Forgiveness

Get It Together

Growling Like a Tiger

Hear My Voice

Here to Achieve

In Times Past

Into the Storm

Jet-Setter

Just Wanted to Write

Kelly and Me