I Loved You. I Still Do.

I Loved You. I Still Do. is a dual-voiced journey through love, loss, identity, and survival-a poetry collection that spans generations, genders, and grief. In these pages, a mother and daughter speak to each other across time, across silence, across the ache of everything unspoken. Together, their words form a tender, unflinching testament to what it means to feel deeply and keep going anyway.From the ink-smudged notebooks of a woman writing her way through addiction, heartbreak, and motherhood, to the raw, lyrical voice of her trans lesbian daughter navigating queer love, chosen family, and the long echo of loss-this book is a conversation in verse. It is memory and myth. It is reckoning and reconciliation. It is survival.You'll find poems written in the margins-of society, of identity, of personal history. Poems about yearning for connection in a disconnected world, about the quiet courage it takes to keep loving when everything hurts. There are journal entries, whispered confessions, and fierce declarations. There are ghosts. There is hope.Whether confronting the seductive pull of self-destruction or exploring the complexity of queer joy, each piece in I Loved You. I Still Do. offers a glimpse into the deeply human need to be seen, to be heard, and to belong.Inside this collection: Over 50 poems chronicling two lives shaped by tenderness and traumaReflections on addiction, mental health, gender, grief, motherhood, and love in all its messy formsUnpublished works from the 1990s and early 2000s, presented alongside contemporary pieces in dialogue with themA cross-generational legacy of truth-telling and emotional survivalFor anyone who has ever mourned someone still living, missed someone long gone, or held out hope in the dark-this book is for you.Her story lives here. So does mine. So might yours.

• | Author: Michelle Rose
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00098 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: NA
• | ISBN-13: 9798316692248