Memories of Broken Souls

By Christopher Leonidas

This non-fiction, narrative poetic book will serve to educate everyone on the moments in which you think you are doing the right thing, while it is really the opposite. This book contains many elements irresistible to readers: wrongdoings, pain, despair, regret, guilt, and workable grief.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781468502015

Christopher Leonidas

At age fifteen, when impatiently crossing an Italian street, Leonidas bounced over a car and was caught with five million dollars. He was charged with a maximum penalty of three years in prison without trial, even though he denied the money was his and claimed insanity. When he got out, he walked outside into freedom and a motorcycle immediately ran over him. He gasped for air as his blood dirtied the road. Two hours later, he woke up in a hospital, his femur and one arm broken. He decided to file a lawsuit. On the day of the trial, the only witness-a policeman-convinced the jury that Leonidas had done it on purpose when the motorcyclist was on his way, as if he had broken his own body just to sue the man. The judge took ten minutes to come out with a final decision, during which he went to the restroom and passed out. When he woke up walked out two hours later, he was considered a "wanted man". His pictures were all over the hallway. Policemen rushed toward him like lions, even though his left leg and right arm were broken, as wounded prey which the lions are gleefully attacking. *(Note: this short biography is not real; do not take it seriously under any circumstance.) Leonidas Christopher, born December 27, 1992, hails from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is an active US Marine. He lives his life practicing the adage that life should not be about how it is but about how we can make it. He spent his childhood aloof from his family, spent his time wandering around dangerous and poor zones learning, as he did, about life. He met strangers who later became his friends, and he discovered that they too had their own secrets buried within. As he grew up, his own tragedies were added to the awful memories and stories of his friends. Using these, he hopes now to make a difference for the better in other people’s lives. He writes crime stories that are full of suspense and mystery. He also posts inspirational words on his blog.

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© 2015 Christopher Leonidas. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 05/18/2015

ISBN: 978-1-4685-0204-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4685-0202-2 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4685-0201-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011960504

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Contents

Introduction

Part I Mirthless

Lost

Fallen Ones

Commotion Jaws

Watery Grave

Solemn

Mournful Soul in Regret

Aha, Aha

On Your Hill I Want to Dwell

Long, You Do Have to Bleed Me

White Man, My Bones Are Crystal-Clear

The Cigarettes from My Nose

I’m About to Go Down

Silent Memory

Daily Welts

I Committed Suicide

Within Time This Old, Honest Friend

Own Shadowed Abyss

Abandoned

Deep Inner Door of a Killer

Burned Within

That Dark Rising Year

Morrow after Morrow

Perfidy, the Untrusted Friend

Octa Stood Still

Part II Wanderer Rat

Wanderer Rat

The Coward Dastar Was Being Seen

The Young Girl

After an Occurrence

Shattered Soul

A Woman’s Deadliest Moment

An Abis Victim

The Incoming Grave

An Old Man Dying from a Gunshot

The Seventh Dead

Part III Regrets of the Shadows’ Confessions

Past Confession

Sorrowful Confession of Abis

Witnessed a Dying Soul

Caught in the Dark

Redemption of a Corrupted Shadow

Deathbed Confession

I Walked Away

Realization

Broken Circle

Want to Move On

Part IV Cries of Change

Let Your Soul Step into Dark

Depraved Proposal

Die, Lie

But You Did Want Be Blue

Keep on Dubbing Me Betrayer

Mankind

Crime

What Circle

I Long Await

Open Your Heart

Tiredness of Broken Souls

Government

Shattered World

March Forward, Yell the Patriots

Dawn of Despair

Humanity, It Shall Be Done

This World

About the Author

Upcoming Novel

Praise for Memories of Broken Souls

The writer brings us from the deepest despair to bearable anguish to workable grief.

—Lee Ann, editor, Firstediting

I found it very moving. The feelings and meanings were quite clear, and I was touched by the emotions, as I’m sure your readers will be.

—Lee Ann, editor, Firstediting

The feelings seem to come from one or more authority figures who, in their career, made life-changing judgments on others, thinking they were doing the right thing for many, then one day waking up and feeling regret, guilt, fear, sorrow, and more regret.

—Lee Ann, editor, Firstediting

Having

Gone into the valley of my wicked action and the depths

Of deception, hiding any truth has only hidden the torch,

Destroying any act of impurity and motivation for making a change.

Introduction

This book is dedicated to the world, and its purpose is to be the voice of broken souls—anonymous people who merely express their emotions, or people who suffer from excruciating penance, corruption, ignorance, or pain caused by their own actions or other people’s—to inspire change in humanity. The