Poetry for addiction, loss & recovery
Read the PoemsThe story
This book exists because someone who mattered is gone. Lost to meth. Lost too young. Lost in a way that leaves you wondering what you could have said, what poem you could have written, what words might have been enough.
Still Here is the answer to that wondering. Poems about the suffering that addiction carves into the people around it. Poems about clawing your way back. And poems about what it looks like to actually be happy again, on purpose, every day.
What lives inside these pages
Poems about watching someone you love disappear into addiction. The helplessness. The bargaining. The silence after the phone stops ringing.
Read poems →Raw words from the middle of it. The relapse cycles, the 3 AM moments, the thousand small decisions between giving up and getting up.
Read poems →Recovery is not a straight line. These poems map the crooked, honest path back to yourself. One day, one breath, one choice at a time.
Read poems →Being happy is not betrayal. Being your best self is not forgetting. These poems are about learning to live fully, even after loss.
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You were the loudest laugh in every room,
the first to call when things fell apart.
Now I write poems to the quiet
you left behind.
from the collection
This book is for
Still Here is proof that grief can become something beautiful. That recovery is possible. That the best version of you is still waiting.
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