Not Just a College Girl

This book was not written in one sitting. It was written in pieces — between lectures and late nights, between festival flights home and the quiet that followed, between unanswered emails and the one call that changed everything. These twenty-one poems are two years of a life lived fully and felt deeply. The chaos and the clarity. The ambition and its cost. The festivals missed. The security gates walked through while someone who loves you stands on the other side, being brave. I did not write this because I had arrived somewhere. I wrote it because I was in the middle of becoming — and I wanted to remember every step honestly, before distance made it look easier than it was.