mabsl0ve
"I used to be a runner, but I've finally learned how to stand still."
At thirteen, Mabs was a paradox. On paper, she was the girl with the "top-notch" grades, the perfect student, and the sharpest mind in the room. But behind the straight A's was a spiraling heart, a girl who chose the wrong crowds, rebelled against the hands that tried to hold her, and eventually ran away from a home she didn't yet understand.
In this raw and rhythmic collection of thirty poems, Mabs traces the jagged path from a chaotic adolescence to the threshold of womanhood. She explores the "People Pleaser's Debt"-the exhaustion of trying to find self-worth in the shifting approval of others-and the painful realization that oversharing is often just a desperate plea to be seen.
The Architecture of Becoming is a journey of demolition and reconstruction. It is about:
The Demolition: Letting go of the "wrong friends" and the toxic habits that felt like safety.
The Foundation: Discovering that independence isn't about being alone, but about being your own favorite company.
The Completion: Turning eighteen not just as a number, but as an intentional act of self-love.
Deeply emotional and unapologetically honest, these poems are for anyone who has ever felt like they were "too much" for the world. It is a story for the girl who used to shrink herself to fit into small spaces, but who is now, finally, steadily, and without apology, becoming the woman she was always meant to be.