A Journey from Broken to Becoming

What does it feel like to be thirteen - to carry the weight of a world still being understood, to rage at its injustices, to ache for love, and to search, always, for the light on the other side?

Pieces of Me is a collection of poems written through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old mind that refuses to look away - moving through the full spectrum of human emotion, from the weight of feeling trapped and the fury of witnessing injustice, to the quiet ache of longing and the hard-won brightness of hope. Written with striking emotional range and an instinct for image and rhythm, these poems do not flinch. They sit inside darkness without drowning in it, and find their way - always - toward something that endures. This is not a collection about easy answers.

It is about the pieces we carry, the pieces we lose, and the pieces that, slowly, make us whole.