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by Cody Riddle (Author)
For almost a decade, the author poured every fracture, heartbreak, betrayal, depression, and death into poetry to survive the darkness. Each poem in this collection comes from a specific moment in a long and lonely descent, relationships that burned through the night, losses that changed everything, silence that felt suffocating, and the quiet ache of trying to rebuild a sense of self.
Though deeply personal, these pieces echo emotions many readers know intimately. Because you don't have to live the same story to recognize the shape of grief. You don't need to know the author to understand what it means to feel abandoned, broken, or undone. This collection is for anyone who has carried sorrow in their chest, who has loved too deeply, or who has survived something that left them different. Across tenebrous pages, the book explores heartbreak, self-hatred, longing, trauma, and the process of healing. And while the poems themselves live in the darkness that forged them, the writer now stands at a distance, no longer drowning, but looking back with clarity and the quiet hope of beginning again.
This book is an offering:
a mirror for the wounded,
a home for the lonely,
a place for anyone who needs to feel less alone in their pain.
A brighter collection will come someday. But before rebirth, there must be reckoning. These poems are that reckoning.
