In Five Years

"You don't heal from grief. You only heal around it." — from In Five Years.In Five Years is a five-year long journey through the shifting landscapes of grief and loss. It is an intimate map of how absence reshapes a life. Across these poems, grief is not a single event but an evolving presence: sharp and breathless in the beginning, muted and heavy in the middle years, and finally something that can be held without hurting you.This collection follows the author's transformation as they move through every stage of grief, the sorrow, remembrance, and the reluctant healing. Moments of raw feeling sit alongside quiet reflections, small mercies, and the unexpected beauty that emerges in the shadow of what’s gone once you're capable of seeing it.At its core, In Five Years is a testament of endurance: how time changes the weight of memory and grief itself changes with us, and how love continues to exist even after loss. It is a record of survival, shaped by five years of navigating loss after loss. Read more