This collection maps the scattered aftermath of a love built on beginnings that faltered and went dark. Split into two parts — “Starts Within Me” and “Starts Within You” — it traces the raw, cyclical journey through wishful longing, quiet mourning, restless nights, and the echo of a voice in an empty room.

These poems are confetti after the party, rose-colored glasses finally cracked. They capture the ache of loving a memory more than a person and the fragile reconstruction of a self in the quiet that follows.

These poems are a whispered reminder that even a heart full of broken starts was, once, brave enough to begin.