It Stayed

This book isn’t about grand gestures. It’s about the small things that stay after conversations fade, after meetings end, after someone starts to matter more than they should. Across these poems, a relationship forms the way most real ones do: slowly, unevenly, without clear labels. Curiosity turns into habit. Habit becomes care. Care grows into something heavier something that doesn’t always get a name. These pages hold pauses, missteps, soft laughter and silences that begin to mean more than words. Love appears here not as one defining moment, but as a series of quiet choices made over time. For those who believe love isn’t always loud but it always leaves something behind inside you.