Everything I Wasn't Supposed to Be

This collection is a meditation on survival, becoming, and the quiet defiance of a life lived against the odds. Drawing from raw, real moments including a thrown glass, a tin roof, a dog who waited, and an ocean that took your slippers, it traces one man's journey from a chaotic childhood to a purposeful arrival. Written for first-generation dreamers, late bloomers, and everyone who was told to want less, these twenty-one poems bridge personal pain with universal truth, offering not just a story to read but a mirror to hold. For anyone still becoming everything they were told they couldn't be.