After the Quiet

Love rarely tells you when it's changing.

Sometimes it begins with late-night conversations, inside jokes, missed exits, and someone's name becoming the one you hope will light up your phone.

Sometimes it changes through shorter replies, postponed plans, quiet dinners, and two people slowly realizing they don't know how to reach each other anymore.

After the Quiet is a collection of 20 poems about what happens before, during, and after we love someone.

These pages move through meeting, belonging, distance, arguments, heartbreak, letting go, learning to be alone, and eventually finding the courage to open your heart again.

Not every love lasts.

Some people stay.

Some become memories.

Some leave behind lessons you don't understand until years later.

But when the calls stop, the messages end, and everything finally becomes quiet, something still remains:

you.

And sometimes, that's where another kind of love begins.