After the Ache

This collection is a quiet journey through the many emotions that make us human. Written over twenty-one days, these poems were born not from a carefully planned theme, but from whatever the author happened to feel in the moment. Love, grief, longing, loneliness, anger, guilt, self-doubt, freedom, and the strange emptiness that sometimes follows healing find their way onto these pages. Raw and unfiltered, the poems do not attempt to explain every feeling or offer easy answers. Instead, they hold space for the contradictions within us—the things we feel, lose, carry, and eventually learn to let go of. Sometimes, simply feeling is enough.