Mirror: A Self Portrait

This story, like many others, begins with a boy of no more than ten years. Dark hair and big brown eyes, tanned from living on an island paradise. A family of five in a three bedroom apartment was what he called home. They were poor, the boy and his family, and while he knew this he never truly understood poverty. When he thought about it he didn’t see the homelessness that he saw in the news or the crime or rampant hunger that the news spoke…