Ashes Belong To No One

What does it mean to hold grief without claiming it—to witness loss, longing, and refusal without surrender? In Ashes Belong to No One, Melvin J Gideon offers a collection of poems shaped by silence and boundary. Each page speaks in restraint, tracing moments where memory lingers but closure never arrives. This is a book about emotional sovereignty. About healing that doesn’t announce itself. About the courage it takes to let ache remain unnamed. Ashes Belong to No One is not about endings. It’s about choosing what deserves to be carried—and what doesn’t.