Today I am sharing a personal milestone: my published poetry collection titled "Love: Thoughts from Crumpled Pages"
*Dedication: to those who continue to cheer me on (in public and in private). To those who broke my heart into pieces. To me. With my deepest appreciation, thank you.
*This collection of poems, thoughts, and ramblings has been sown together from notes, journals, crumpled pieces of paper, and 3am dreams. I am still working on loving all of me.
1. The Shutdown - "You never realize your light went out, until you look back and all you see is darkness." Me
2. Lies - "Half a truth is often a great lie." Benjamin Franklin
3. Lost - "Now you're lost, lost in the heat of it all." Frank Ocean
4. Death of Love - "Don't break your own heart trying to fill someone else's. " Bianca Sparacino
5. Faith - "So we live by faith and not sight." 2 Corinthians 5:7
6. Space - "The right one does not stand in your way. They make peace for you to step forward." Rupi Kaur
7. Sun and Moon - "You never know when a moment and a few sincere words, can have an impact on a life." Zig Ziglar
8. Attached - "It takes two flints to make a fire." Louisa May Alcott
9. Maybe for Real - "Maybe the time, like every time, it is about me." Me
10. Was it Love? - "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." Andre Breton
11. At First - "You had me at hello." Jerry Maguire
12. Quiet Love - "And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." Collossians 3:14
13. I Want - "Find someone you can heal with." Young Pueblo
14. To Be Honest - "You have dug your soul out of dark, you have fought to be here, do not go back to what buried you." Bianca Sparacino
15. Turn Around - "Sometimes we go back and repeat an old mistake just so we can remember why we moved forward." Young Pueblo
16. One Foot - "Lovers are Lunatics" - Latin saying
17. Maybe - "Maybe this time, for the first time. Love won't hurry away. Maybe this time. Maybe this time, I'll win." - Maybe This Time
18. Peace - "You cannot love someone into loving you if they do not." Bianca Sparacino
19. It Starts - "Taking a moment to figure out how you really feel instead of letting old patterns decide for you is one of the most authentic things you can do." Young Pueblo
20. She Is - "You always find it when you stop looking." - Me
21. 44 Laps
Thank you for lending me your ears while I pour out a very vulnerable side of me.
Stay cute, stay kind and keep dancing, even when everyone is watching.
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