Hailing from a once cruel neighborhood in Norfolk Virginia (Park Place) Damian Hamza Taylor releases a brutal confessional in poetic form. "DOPE BOY Metaphors" is the first of a gripping trilogy of poetry and prose that will shake the very core of your emotions. It is filled with childhood nightmares and a past that most pens would hide in notebooks tucked deep under their beds. "DOPE BOY METAPHORS" journals the struggles of a once cocaine addicted poet struggling to keep his dark secrets medicated by pen and poison. Hamza also known in the poetry world as Hamza the 7th Sun holds nothing back and frees himself from his own personal demons with the release of this book. Each poem reveals a love for life and a battle to motivate others away from the perils of what sunk him deep into a pit many rarely escape.