Things the Fire Left Behind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188684891)

Some fires never go out. They settle into your bones, teach your heart to mistake survival for living, and convince your mind that danger is the only language it will ever speak.

Things the Fire Left Behind is a raw and haunting collection of poems about childhood trauma, addiction, recovery, grief, trauma bonds, and the long journey of learning who you are after surviving what should have destroyed you. These pages are for anyone who has ever felt like their own mind was the battlefield, loved people who couldn't love them back, or wondered if healing was possible after a lifetime of fire.

This is not a story about what happened.

It is a story about what survived