Straight From My Heart

Grief changes a person, but grace can change them even more.

Straight From My Heart is a collection born from the deepest places of love, loss, and faith. After losing her only son Jake in 2017 and her beloved husband Charley in 2025, Diane Wilson turned to the one thing that has always carried her through. Her words.

These poems are the prayers she whispered in the dark, the memories she held close, and the hope she fought for when life felt too hard to bear. Some pieces were written long before tragedy touched her home. Others poured out during the hardest seasons of her life. All of them are honest and full of heart.

Within these pages you will find a mother's love, a wife's devotion, and a woman's steady trust in God as she learns to breathe again. Diane writes with simplicity and soul, showing that even in sorrow, there is strength. Even in heartbreak, there is healing. Even in the quiet moments when life feels broken, God is still near.

This book is for anyone who has loved deeply, grieved deeply, and is doing their best to keep moving forward. It is a reminder that faith carries us, memories anchor us, and love does not end.

Straight From My Heart is exactly what its title promises. A gift of words from a woman who refuses to let pain silence her hope.

Diane Wilson was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma and grew up with deep Texas roots. She has spent her life writing down her thoughts, prayers, and the dreams she holds for a kinder world. Poetry became her way of working through joy, sorrow, and the seasons that shaped her, especially after the loss of her only son Jake in 2017 and her husband Charley in 2025.Her hope is that these poems will comfort, inspire, and remind readers that God is near in every moment. Diane believes words carry power, and her Texas heart is always reaching to encourage others and lift their spirits.