Some feelings arrive slowly.
They make no sound.
They simply begin, in silence, to change the landscape of our lives.
The Future That Never Happened is a collection of poems about love, waiting, care, absence, and transformation. A book for anyone who has ever imagined a tomorrow that never came to be - and still knows that not everything unrealized was untrue.
Across these pages, the reader follows the delicate journey of a feeling that begins almost without a name, grows in small gestures, learns to wait, finds beauty in ordinary things, and, in time, discovers the quiet courage of letting go.
This is not only a book about love.
It is a book about what love changes in us.
About people who stay in our lives only briefly, yet forever change the way we see the path ahead. About imagined futures, houses built inside thought, messages, mornings, silences, goodbyes, and everything that remains even after a story stops continuing.
With an intimate, sensitive, and contemplative voice - close in spirit to the everyday tenderness of Mary Oliver, the emotional clarity of Maggie Smith, the meditative restraint of Jane Hirshfield, and the luminous vulnerability of Ada Limón - this collection invites readers to recognize their own waiting, losses, and beginnings again.
Because perhaps some feelings do not end in loss.
Perhaps they continue to exist
in the person
we become
after them.
