Salt and Gravity: Illustrated Poems on Pain, Healing, and Self-love

By Eshe Benson

SALT AND GRAVITY is an illustrated collection of poems about abuse, pain, tears, healing, love and the journey to self-love. The poems are also about heartbreak and ultimately, learning to be confident and comfortable even in aloneness.

The book is split into four chapters:
Salt
Flavor
Gravity
Grounded

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eshe Benson
• Release date: Jan 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9789914704112

Eshe Benson

Eshe Benson is a poet, author, and entrepreneur on a lifelong mission to inspire, empower, uplift, and entertain people through the power of storytelling. She also strives to shift rigid perspectives and paradigms that no longer serve humanity.Hailing from a tiny Kenyan village where a good education was only possible for a few privileged villagers, Eshe refused to let the odds that were stacked up against her stand in her way. Obliterating each roadblock that appeared on her path, she went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree. But she didn't just stop at a Bachelor's degree. No. This determined woman with ironclad tenacity went on to earn a Master's degree in Entrepreneurship, a Doctorate in Biblical Studies, and two post-graduate diplomas! On top of all her hard work in the academic arena, she merged her passion for empowerment and poetry and created two books: "Thorns in Her Flesh" and "Salt and Gravity".When she isn't pouring her heart out onto paper or a computer screen, you can find this fun-loving writer going on epic adventures around the world, dancing like nobody's watching, and cooking tasty meals.To find about more about this inspiring poetic force in human form, take a look at her official website: www.eshebenson.com

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contents:

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salt

flavor

gravity

grounded

about book

about author

you thought i was a wildflower

you picked my petals

threw them down your river 

when you watched me drown

did you remember

your own flowers 

growing

in your backyard?

~ wildflower

mama protected me from boys

she did not know

how to protect me from men

she did not think

she needed to

the moon had been with me

all night 

the sun came too late

in the morning 

she could not understand my blues

the moon knowingly smiled

and left

leaving me to burn 

~ the sun was late

he always had arrows

to guard his home 

the silence of the night

soothed him to sleep 

the village hyenas came

and took his daughter 

brought her back to bed

in the early morning

her father did not know

the hyenas had visited

his daughter

was too afraid to tell

now the hyenas

mock her dreams

and laugh at her father

for not knowing