This collection began, as most honest things do, in the quiet moments we rarely admit to having. The pauses between tasks. The thoughts that arrive uninvited. The feelings that refuse to stay tidy. These poems were written in those in-between spaces - where clarity flickers, contradictions breathe, and the mind wanders toward truths it didn't know it was carrying.
They are not instructions, nor answers, nor declarations of certainty. They are invitations. Each piece offers a small opening into the inner weather of being human: the sudden warmth of recognition, the sting of memory, the humour of our own tangled logic, the softness we try so hard to hide.
If these poems do anything, I hope they remind you that thinking and feeling are not separate acts. That a single line can hold both ache and laughter. That the world inside you is vast, shifting, and worth listening to.
Thank you for stepping into these pages. May you find something here that stays with you - a sentence, a rhythm, a spark - long after the book is closed.