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A Shadow Without a Body

A Shadow Without a Body

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To feel unreal is to drift through existence like a phantom-untethered from time, watching but never quite touching. Suspended between presence and absence, seen yet intangible. This collection of poetry navigates identity, survival, absurdity, and the spaces where reality blurs. With sharp imagery, haunting introspection, and darkly wry humor, A Shadow Without a Body unravels the myths of healing, the illusion of stability, and the pull between longing and detachment. These poems trace the weight of mental illness, the echoes of self-loss, and the quiet contradiction of wanting to disappear while yearning to be seen. Caught between waiting rooms and fogged mirrors, between recognition and erasure, between tethered and adrift-a life shaped by paradox, where certainty is a mirage and the only certainty is contradiction itself. A Shadow Without a Body is a testament to the unspoken, the unsaid, and the inexplicably strange. It does not promise answers-only the possibility that absence is not the end. That even in the silence between heartbeats, something lingers. That even in our worst moments, something resists disappearing.
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In these pages, the world is both light and heavy-sometimes in the same breath. This is a catch-call collection of my own poetry, prose and/or lyrics that I've accumulated over the years that I related to and enjoyed writing and re-writing. I don't know, I just hope you enjoy them or find some comfort in them as well. :) Also, possibly relevant, I'm queer, autistic/adhd and very traumatized so if you relate, you might, like idk, relate to these maybe or they may be a little too real??

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