Family Trauma

These poems return to the rooms we tried to forget: the slammed doors; the silent dinners; the hands that hurt more than they held. In every line, the past bleeds forward. This is not nostalgia it’s excavation.

When home becomes the first wound we carry.

The Night Everything Broke

A quiet, devastating lyric poem about a boy witnessing the moment his family began to fall apart. Christmas Eve brings not comfort, but the first tremor of lifelong grief.

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When Roots Rot: A Poem of Growing Pains and Neglect

Grown in filth without the warmth of nurture, this sorrowful bloom tells of roots strangled by deceit and veins longing for colour. A wilted soul sways in storms, aching for the tender promise of a rainbow.

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Cold Inheritance

A deeply confessional narrative poem exploring the long shadow of paternal rejection. From childhood blame to adult heartbreak, Cold Inheritance lays bare the lasting wounds of a father's disdain.

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Dear Father

A haunting letter written into silence, this prose poem mourns a father’s absence across years of abuse, shame and longing. Each memory aches with the weight of what wasn’t said, and what wasn’t stopped.

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Mental Illness Demon

In the hush before dawn a shape of night slips beneath the sheets, threading terror through synapse and dream until mercy curdles into fevered hate.

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Fed on Dirt

A brutal meditation on inherited trauma, this poem uses visceral natural imagery to portray a family choked by its own roots, where no light reaches, no healing takes and love rots on the vine.

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Big Daddy

A heart-wrenching lyric poem about father loss, neglect and the quiet devastation that followed. Through strangers and shadows, one boy tried to replace the love he never received — and never forgot.

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