Lessons Learned the Hard Way

<p><strong><em>You have to die a few times before you can really live.</em> - Charles Bukowski</strong></p><p> </p><p></p><p>There are seasons of life that consume you whole-where grief love heartbreak and self-destruction threaten to pull you under. <em>Lessons Learned the Hard Way</em> is a collection of poetry and prose written from the depths of those moments.</p><p> </p><p>Told in raw unfiltered chronology this book is less a retrospective and more a survival record-a translation of feelings too heavy to carry alone. Through cities and lovers through longing and loss through vices and revelations these pages document what it means to feel <em>everything</em> deeply and still come out on the other side.</p>