Still Standing

By William Boundroukas

Still Standing is a book of poems written from the place where responsibility settles and does not leave-the place where you realize that walking away is no longer an option, and staying becomes a form of love.

These poems are not about expression.
They are about containment.

They are written for the person who has learned to hold things quietly: worry, grief, vigilance, unanswered questions. For the one who absorbs what would wound others, who stands in doorways-between harm and the vulnerable, between noise and silence, between what could break and what must not.

They speak from the position of someone who stays present when explanation would change nothing. Where love is not sentiment, but watchfulness. Where faith is not certainty or comfort, but the decision to endure without guarantees.

The language is spare and deliberate.
Nothing rushes to reassure you.
Silence is allowed to do its work.

Rooted in lived experience as a father, husband, and attorney, these poems honor the unseen labor of care: the body as witness, strength that leaves no evidence because it succeeds, love that remains without applause or recognition. There is no performance here, no resolution offered-only presence.

This is poetry for readers who know that strength is usually invisible, that love does not rotate positions, and that some truths survive only if they are held.

Still Standing is not about becoming more.
It is about remaining whole.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GCHGG4XH
• ISBN13: 9798233612732
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: William G. Boundroukas Esq.
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"