10 Months of Grief

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 40 45 1)>For almost a decade the author poured every fracture heartbreak betrayal depression and death into poetry to survive the darkness. Each poem in this collection comes from a specific moment in a long and lonely descent relationships that burned through the night losses that changed everything silence that felt suffocating and the quiet ache of trying to rebuild a sense of self. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 40 45 1)>Though deeply personal these pieces echo emotions many readers know intimately. Because you don't have to live the same story to recognize the shape of grief. You don't need to know the author to understand what it means to feel abandoned broken or undone. This collection is for anyone who has carried sorrow in their chest who has loved too deeply or who has survived something that left them different. Across tenebrous pages the book explores heartbreak self-hatred longing trauma and the process of healing. And while the poems themselves live in the darkness that forged them the writer now stands at a distance no longer drowning but looking back with clarity and the quiet hope of beginning again. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 40 45 1)>This book is an offering: </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 40 45 1)>a mirror for the wounded </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 40 45 1)>a home for the lonely </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 40 45 1)>a place for anyone who needs to feel less alone in their pain. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 40 45 1)>A brighter collection will come someday. But before rebirth there must be reckoning. These poems are that reckoning.</span></p>