Intensely quiet and powerful. There is poetry in this work. As the father of a "goth" kid myself I found that these words really touched me. No way on earth that I would try to change my son to be like more traditional - but I could see how that might be the avenue taken by someone different than me. What this young man went through sounds very much like abuse - nevertheless, that he is so willing and able to express his experience tells me that he will be ok, that he is already his own person, and that the look and the hair were only the outward manifestation that person.