Just Words: Selected Poems by Brian Decker

By Brian J Decker

These poems were not written to impress anyone.

They were written to survive.

Over decades, in hospital rooms and treatment centers, in lonely kitchens and quiet bedrooms, on verandas and in parking lots, these words arrived when they had to - when monsters woke in the night, when love cracked something open, when shame whispered that nothing was worth saving, and when, against all odds, something was.

Just Words is a collection for anyone who has found love, lost love, carried love through darkness, or discovered that loving someone - truly, fully, imperfectly - is the most dangerous and necessary thing a human being can do.

Written across four sections - Storms and Monsters, Love Absence and Angels, Gratitude and Reflection, and Brains and Becoming - these poems trace one man's journey from the depths of addiction and self-loathing through the full complexity of desire, devotion, grief, and wonder, toward something that looks, on the best days, like peace.

Brian Decker is a poet, a healer, a father, a husband, a grandfather, a lover. He is human. He had skin in the game. Every word in this collection was lived before it was written.

If you have ever loved in joy and in pain - these are not just his words anymore. They are yours.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXPPBLQ7
• ISBN13: 9798257774881
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"