if words were pain, my stories would kill you.

On a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago's snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body is discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong and drop the matter into their cold case files. Over a year later, Tracy's sister, Sondra, still can't come to grips with what happened. She throws herself into her work as a documentary filmmaker to try and forget the cruelty of her sister's death. However, a chance encounter with a man from Tracy's past rips the wound open and sends Sondra on a desperate search for answers about the secrets from her sister's life that may have led to her death. As Sondra struggles to uncover what happened to Tracy, she's launched into a tangled web of deceit and danger that put her on a collision course with life and death...

If I would have compiled this poetry book post-2019, I'd have done it very differently. But, go ahead, give it a read. It's a collection of poems, quotes, and prose for you written in my early adulthood. ***** Hey readers, if you'd like to extend your support apart from votes and comments, please consider buying my poetry collection 'La Douleur Exquise' (Kindle edition). It's a collection of poems on unexpressed, unrequited, and unattainable love. The link is in my bio. You can also DM me for signed paperback copies!

Poetry of spiritual intoxication poured without measure

a bunch of quotes by Rumi, you should read them because Rumi is the greatest poet of all time, in my opinion, share this with your friends and family!

A compilation of quotations from the poet Rumi.

"the wound is the place where the Light enters you."

Rumi's work and his life.

A break of sunlight casting throughout the fire set aflame in my dark and weary heart |just some short poems I wrote myself| #20 IN POETRY 7/10/2017 | wow. 75k views is unreal. Thank you to everyone. I am so grateful. If you're looking for another poetry book to read, I recommend checking out 100 reasons why i still love you on my page. |

This is a book of some poems I've written recently. Some are about me, some are about books, and some are about something else entirely. Either way, I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.