You Can't Love Her Like This That

This poetry collection contains the observations of two addicted lovers and their struggles to be loved and to allow themselves to surrender to those emotions. It peers into their stories from both a first- and third-person perspective, both individually and collectively.

It’s the scattered pieces of a love story that everyone called toxic, foolish, and hopeless, but despite the crashes, it’s a place they continue to find themselves unable to walk away from. It examines the pre-existing traumas, abuses, and problems that each wears as a burden tattooed upon their face, exposed for the whole world to see. It paints pictures of their reconnection, their repeated failures brought about by addiction, their disconnects with the world, themselves, and the other person. The collection portrays the joys of love and the sickness of separation, the hell of incarceration, and the path of recovery. It’s the tragedies of an addicted lifestyle colliding with love, desires, and lost promises to create a beautiful disaster standing alone in the rain on the sunniest day forecasted. a paradox of dark versus light. The chronicles of struggles, trials, and failures that keep them clinging on to each other for safety from a world that has betrayed them.