Notes from a quiet ache

Can love be so selfless and so dependent that it begins to destroy you? We have all heard that love is blind. But can it be so blind that, in loving someone, you slowly lose your sense of self and even your self-respect? This book explores the chaos of love where we fall in love with an idea—an imagined version of a person—so deeply that we stop seeing the truth standing in front of us. The poems in this collection portray that kind of love: a love where one day the heart is dying in desperate belongingness, and the next day it is riding waves of excitement. Is this really love… or just the ache of wanting to be chosen?