Where the Light Hides: rings around my heart

Where the Light Hides: Rings Around My Heart is a raw and intimate collection of poetry tracing a specific span of a life—not in its entirety, but in its unraveling.These poems move through love and loss, faith and fracture, identity and reassembly. They were written in moments of clarity and collapse, where silence became unbearable and language was the only way through. What emerges is not a polished portrait, but a record of destruction and slow, painful rebirth—of learning, unlearning, and rewriting the self until reorganization itself loses meaning.This collection explores emotional truth, trauma, desire, jealousy, exhaustion, and hope—not as abstract ideas, but as lived experiences carried in the body and mind. Some poems turn inward, others outward. Some whisper. Others refuse to be quiet. Together, they form a journey through systems that shape us, relationships that bind us, and the quiet moments where choice still exists.This is not a book of answers.It is a space for recognition.If you find room in these pages for your own unspoken truths—the ones that resist language, whether spoken or thought—then the work is complete. Let this book stand as a reminder that hope destroyed does not equal death, but evolution. Read more