Reflections of a Heart: Pot Liquor for the Soul

This is a novel based on a true story about a teenager who took his father's car joyriding one night just for fun. He was pulled over and arrested and sent to a detention center for fifteen months and twenty-three days. Unbeknown to him at this time, that his life would never be the same. The punishment would leave him bitter for a very long time and his parents absences during his months of imprisonment only fanned the flames.
The story takes a turn going into his third month inside the detention center after receiving a gift from God, a gift of writing. After receiving this gift he was able to put light inside a very dark place. Even though the gift was a blessing, once he was released he suddenly became dysfunctional and he felt it was by design.
The young man had felt he was the victim of systemic racism and that he had been trapped into a system that had taken his name and had replaced it with a number that would label him for many years to come. The months inside the detention center would transform him into a mean and cold-hearted individual. Soon he would become a career criminal and a two strike felon. His brief intermissions in and out of jails and prison turned him into a drug addict and alcoholic as a coping mechanism to get through a day.
He would receive a rude awakening when he was released from prison the second time. His mother had lost her eyesight from diabetics. When she became blind, this is when the young man began to see.