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Guilt doesn't always scream.
Sometimes it whispers
in sleepless nights,
in apologies you never sent,
in names you still can't say out loud.
101 Poems About Guilt is a raw, intimate collection about the weight we carry after love, after mistakes, after choosing silence when we should have spoken. These poems explore remorse that lingers, memories that won't loosen their grip, and the quiet self-blame that slowly consumes from the inside.
This is guilt as a companion.
As a wound.
As a voice that sounds suspiciously like your own.
Written in sharp fragments and aching honesty, this collection is for those who:
- regret loving too late or too much
- replay moments they can't undo
- carry apologies in their chest instead of their mouths
- are trying to forgive themselves but aren't there yet
Not a guide to healing.
Not a promise of redemption.
Just truths that were unfiltered, uncomfortable, and devastatingly human.
If you've ever been haunted by what you did,
what you didn't do,
or who you became in the process
these poems were written for you.