The Light I Kept: A poetic memoir

By Ms Sierra L Cofield

This book wasn't born all at once. It was a slow unraveling. A quiet coming home to myself. For so long, I carried stories too heavy to speak. They lived in my skin, in my silence, in the way I kept showing up for everyone but me. When I finally began to write, it was supposed to be for an English assignment. I didn't know it would become a mirror. I didn't know it would save me. Parentless was the hardest to write. Each line reopened a wound that never fully closed. But Body Prayer healed me. It reminded me that softness was never weakness. It was survival. It was my body asking me to stay. These poems became both mirror and medicine for me, and for anyone who has ever tried to earn love by disappearing. Writing taught me this: Love was never gone. It was just buried beneath the noise. Peace isn't loud. Healing isn't instant. But both are possible. If you've ever doubted it, look at me. We are safe now. We can do this. You can too. And when you reach the end of these pages, I hope you feel what I finally do: calm love. The kind that doesn't ask for permission to exist. The kind that whispers, You are loved.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWBKZ3N8
• ISBN13: 9798269740263
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"