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.
why does falling in love really hurt?? like, i just love! why does it make me so hurt. and then, i realized...
love arrives like a storm
tearing down walls
i didn't know were there
exposing the raw
nerve endings
of my heart
it hurts
because feeling
is terrifying
but the ache
is also the proof
that i am alive
.....