"Confessions of the Heart""Poems for the Heartbroken"

"Confessions of the Heart: Poems for the Heartbroken" Volume #2

By Johnny J. Whitaker

This is a book for the nights that do not end on time.

For the love that never quite arrived.

For the love that left.

For the love you gave that never came back wearing your name.

For the quiet house, the unsent message, the grocery aisle that still knocks the wind out of you.

Inside you will find original poems written in plain, honest language — not fancy, not preachy — plus a handful of public-domain verses people already carry in their bones. The pages are grouped so you can go straight to what you are walking through:

• Love that never was
• Love that was not returned
• Loneliness
• Missing someone special
• Being cheated
• After a death
• Psalms and scripture for a broken heart
• A short guide for sitting with the pain
• Lined pages to write your own poem
• A “five times I cried” journal so the ache has somewhere to land

You do not have to be a poet to use this book. You only have to be honest. Read a page. Sit with it. Write badly if you have to. Bad writing that tells the truth is better than pretty writing that hides.

Written with women in mind — the ones carrying this through a quiet kitchen at 1 a.m. — and for anyone who was told they were not allowed to need a book like this.

If a line names what you could not say, keep it.

If a page helps the night get smaller, that is enough.

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