The more vulnerable-making the endeavor, the more reflexive the limitation and the more redemptive the liberation. Bruce Lee knew this when he admonished that “you will never get any more out of life than you expect,” James Baldwin knew it when he admonished that “you’ve got to tell the world how to treat you if the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble,” and Viktor Frankl embodied this in his impassioned insistence on saying “yes” to life. The stories we tell ourselves about what we are worthy or unworthy of - from the small luxuries of naps and watermelon to the grandest luxury of a passionate creative calling or a large and possible love - are the stories that shape our lives. Such experiences are shared in his trilogy of books entitled 'Illustrated Book of True Love Poems' of which this is the second.Raw, sometimes brutally honest, sometimes funny, but always from the heart, exploring what is meant by love and a relationship that still stands on solid ground, and yet has no bounds.Few things limit us more profoundly than our own beliefs about what we deserve, and few things liberate us more powerfully than daring to broaden our locus of possibility and self-permission for happiness. Besides troubleshooting projects, sometimes in the middle of nowhere, sometimes left on his own, he learned much about people and life, its challenges and experiences, some deep and profound.His love of poetry really came to life when he fell in love, not for the ﬁ rst time but this time for real.

Dave was born and grew up on the shores of England and following his schooling travelled around the World working for consultancies and institutions like PWC, the World Bank and United Nations, in some of the richest and indeed poorest places on the planet.

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