Unsaid, Still Felt: A Collection of Poems & Lyrics - Paperback

by Jesse L. Willams (Author)

A poetry collection is a journey through the interior life, through longing, heartbreak, self-discovery, and survival.

Unsaid, Still Felt gathers three interwoven threads: raw, confessional poems written across years of searching for love and identity; the complete song lyrics of The Hallow Hour, the fictional indie rock band from the novel After the Fall, tracing their evolution from basement rehearsals through reckless youth into hard-won maturity; and original songs born from the emotional landscape of the novel itself.

At its core, this collection is an honest reckoning with the stories we tell ourselves about love - who we become in its presence, and who we must learn to be without it. From the self-portrait of "23 Years of Me" to the quiet grief of "Remembering Jess," from the unrest of Wasted Souls to the warmth of "Porchlight," these pages hold the full spectrum of feeling: desire and disillusionment, anger and forgiveness, the exhaustion of pretending, and the fragile courage it takes to begin again.

For readers of After the Fall - and for anyone who has ever felt deeply, loved imperfectly, or kept going when they weren't sure they could - this collection is an invitation to sit with what remains unspoken, and to recognize what is still felt. - Jesse L. Williams