This is how I found peace after being misunderstood. This is what happens when the noise goes away and I can hear my own voice again.
These poems came from times when I wasn't sure of myself, when I had to learn to let go, and when I had to learn to believe in myself. They are about taking my time to heal, being careful with love, and finding strength in the quiet places. It's not about being broken. It's about what you need to do to rebuild myself when the world keeps telling me that I don't deserve to be who I am,
Themes: healing, survival, false blame, emotional abuse, self-forgiveness, resilience, and rebirth.
a decade in poetry;
The lives that we live in each moment, each year, each decade. Divided into sections, this collection of poems are confessional and reflective as the speaker weaves through the first decade of adulthood. She learns that everything is clear, in retrospect.
SECTION 1: THE RISE -- purity, naivety, unabashed love.
SECTION 2: THE FALL -- learning the hard truth
SECTION 3: IMPACT -- the injury from the fall
SECTION 4: STAGNATE -- loneliness, depression, stuck in the mud
SECTION 5: RELEASE -- acceptance
SECTION 6: THE RISE: PART TWO -- love in it's truest form