Lyric & Rhymes

The poems and song lyrics you are about to read are all about Shari L Bennett Pickup and the different stages she went through in her life. They are inspired by phases in life and challenges met through out it. God speaking to her soul writes some she claims. You will notice through out the book there is dedications to loved ones and not so loved ones. Good and bad times. Filled with confusion and misunderstandings. All are written from the heart.

She grew up in the most known city in Pennsylvania. Her life was not much different than other girls her age. Most of the time she enjoyed life and being alive. Sometimes enjoyed being alive too much. She found herself married with two kids by the age of twenty-one. Filling for divorce at twenty-two, while others her age were off having fun. She was raising two baby boys on her own. Most of the time she was pretty happy, but she struggled once in a while. She believes the problems and hardships made her who she is today. She would not change a thing if she had to do it all over again.

Life is full of challenges and phases that we all must go through to learn who we are. We learn by the way we handle life’s little surprises and problems. Some surprises are happy. Some are not so. We as individuals must learn from our mistakes and take credit for them. Everything you have done and is doing now or in the future makes us who we want to be. This is found in our thinking when we are met with a challenge or sudden change. We must think clearly. The only way you can do this is to: “GET IT OUT.” Shari was inspired to write things down in a poetic matter. Life is not always fair she claims, and needless to say, it ever will be. Writing helps her to process her problems in a different kind of way. Some of the songs were written before she processed the matter in a clear healthy way. You will see what I mean as you read.

She is just a person like you and me. With needs and wants. She jokingly claims to have walked threw shit up to her head, not knowing when it was going to stop. Sometimes she thought she was going to drown. Now when looking back at what she wrote, she can understand where her emotions and feelings were at the time. Some are looked back on as a realization of change in who she was and who she is now. Some upsets were thought to be problems, but turned out to be a blessing. “You learn from your mistakes.” Some mistakes are meant to be. It is like they seem to be a mistake at first, but they turn out to be perfect. To sum it up into a couple of words it goes like this. “Falling into a pile of shit and coming out smelling like roses.”