Confessions: Writings from a Broken Heart

By Bryan LeBlanc

The inspiration for these writings came from the darkest time in my life. I was thirty-five years old. Seven years into a good career. Ten years into a relationship, engaged to the love of my life, my soul mate. Eight years into an illness, being diagnosed type 1 diabetic. In a matter of one month, my company closed its doors two weeks before Christmas. My fiance moved out the Saturday before Christmas. My medical insurance cancelled on midnight, New Years Eve. I hit rock bottom. I gave up. Couldnt eat and couldnt sleep. I started a new job on December 28, but by January 4, I was hospitalized for my diabetes. I lost forty-five pounds in two weeks. The depression, the stress, and the heartbreak all came crashing down upon me. I was in ICU for two nights, in the hospital for four nights total. While in that bed, I wrote a poem. Not sure why. No one told me to. Then I wrote another. Just passing time, reliving my time with her. When I returned to work the next week, I found myself writing more poems. Three weeks, one hundred poems! She was the inspiration for my writing. Love, hate, sadness, and joy, its all there. The writing kept my emotions and my health at bay. She was and will always be my inspiration.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503556676

Bryan LeBlanc

I was born on the bayous of South Louisiana in March 1979. I spent my childhood in the woods and on the baseball diamond. I moved to South Florida in second grade, only to move back home by eighth grade. I graduated high school in 1997, playing sports and chasing girls my entire teenage life. I never excelled in English or reading classes, so writing is new to me. In my adult, life I’ve moved around a little. I’ve had three jobs in my life, mostly professional driving, having acquired my CDL when I was twenty-six. I’ve been in two long relationships, giving me two great sons. I was diagnosed type 1 diabetic eight years ago and find every day to be a struggle. I love to fish and collect firearms. I play video games way too much, and now I write regularly. I’ve had a pretty incredible life so far, and I hope you enjoy the writings I hold close to my heart.

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Contents

By Your Side

Summer Breeze

Addicted

In The Beginning

Man of my Word

Looking Back

Heaven Sent

The Ride

Out of the Ashes

Day After Day

What You Needed

Our First Night

Times We Shared

A Knight’s Tale

Time With Me

A Heart That Follows

Twice Broken

Starting To See

I Tried

I’m Trying

Cupid’s Game

A New Friend

Everyone Else

To Return

Mind’s Made Up

Taught Me Well

Our Fairy Tale

What She Has

Aim To Please

Zodiac

Surf’s Up

Tides of Romance

Rage

Never Say Never

Lost at Love

Who I Am

One in the Same

Last Call

Like a Rose

My Dream

The Waters of Love

Morning Sun

My Heart is Yours

This Love is Gold

Where You’re Laying

Keep Flying

Walk By

Shine Again

Always

End of the Road

Never Told

Days of Old

Love, Smile, Live

How I Feel

Too Far Away

Sure Way In

Our Destiny

Before You Sail

Growing Up

No More Sun

A Love Like Ours

Where She Goes

She’ll Be Here

She Teaches

Love’s Cure

Tears Will