Leave the Light On: Poems

By: Ian Roesch

Love is like a weightless flame in our hearts.

Leave the Light On is Ian Roesch's debut collection - 100 poems about love in all its forms: the love that lifts us up, the love that breaks us open, and the love we learn to give ourselves when no one else is looking.

Written from Ventura, California over 2 years of observation, heartbreak, and healing, these poems are unvarnished and unguarded. They move between softness and self-harm, between the mundane and the sacred, between the women he has loved, the friends who have carried him, and the family whose love he is still learning how to hold.

Some pages read like a letter. Some like a confession. Some like a late-night text you shouldn't have sent but are glad you did.

For anyone in the middle of something - a relationship, a grief, a becoming - and for anyone who needed the reminder that the door is open, the light is on, and they are not alone in feeling it all so completely.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GY2D9G24
• ISBN13: 9798258105295
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"