The Cosmic Girl

By AFREEN .

For the girl who talks to the moon. For the one who stays awake while the world sleeps. For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and felt it looking back.

The Cosmic Girl is a poetry collection about the things we only feel after dark. The loneliness that has no address. The hope that refuses to die. The love that burns like a dying star, fierce and beautiful and impossible to look away from.

These poems were written in the hours when the world goes quiet and the mind refuses to follow. They were written by someone who found more comfort in the cold light of distant stars than in the warm words of people who promised to stay.

This is not a book about space.
This is a book about what space makes you feel when you are standing underneath it, small and broken and still, somehow, glowing.

Inside this collection, you will find:
- Poems about the moon as mirror, as companion, as the only listener who never interrupts
- Poems about stars as memories, as wishes, as light that travels millions of years just to find you
- Poems about the cosmos as the space between two people who used to be close
- Poems about love that orbits like planets, pulling and being pulled, never quite touching
- Poems about the night as a room of your own, with no walls, no ceiling, and no one to perform for
- Poems about a girl who is part stardust and part ache, learning that those two things might be the same
- Poems about surviving the dark and discovering that surviving is its own kind of light

Readers call it:
"Her poems do not describe the night. They inhabit it."
"She writes the way stars burn. Quietly, relentlessly, and with a light that arrives at exactly the moment you need it."
"The Cosmic Girl is the book she was always supposed to write. Reading it feels like watching scattered pieces of a constellation finally find their proper place in the sky."
"I read this entire book in one sitting at 2 AM and I am not sorry."

This book is for the insomniac who has tried everything except poetry. The stargazer who wants words for what they feel looking up. The heartbroken who need to feel small in the right way. The overthinker whose mind only quietens when the sky is dark. The survivor who needs to believe that collapsed stars still become something. Anyone who has ever whispered a secret to the moon and felt heard.

If you have ever lain awake at night and asked the ceiling questions it could not answer, these poems are for you. If you have ever loved someone who became a ghost while still breathing, these poems are for you. If you have ever looked at the vast, indifferent universe and felt, for one fragile moment, that it was speaking directly to you, then you are the cosmic girl, and this book has been waiting for you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B088B8WHQK
• ISBN13: 9798644257164
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"