Silhouettes of My Tarnished Soul A Memoir in Poetry of Abuse, Heartbreak, and Finding My Way Back

A raw and intimate collection of poems about love, heartbreak, abuse, loneliness, and finding my way back to myself. These pages follow the unraveling of a woman who loved deeply and, somewhere along the way, lost pieces of herself. Through vivid imagery and haunting honesty, each poem bears witness to the loneliness of suffering, the confusion of loving someone who wounds you, the ache of a love that could not remain, and the quiet unraveling of a woman trying to find herself again. The journey begins in an abusive marriage, where love became tangled with pain, fear, and silence. It moves through the heartbreak of loving a man who left a wound I never expected, and into the uncertainty of dating again—searching for connection, hoping for something real, and discovering that not every person who enters my life is meant to stay. But beneath each chapter is a deeper story: what happens when I have spent so long being hurt, disappointed, and trying to be loved that I no longer recognize myself. And then, slowly, the story turns inward. Toward healing. Toward remembering. Toward the woman I was before the hurt—and the woman I became after it. This is not simply a book about the people who broke my heart. It is about what I found when I finally stopped looking for myself in them.