Loving Me To Pieces

By Lyndsay Taylor

Loving Me To Pieces is a collection of very raw and personal poems that derive from my own life's experiences, thoughts, and creativity. In this book, there are a million little things that are worked out delicately through the written word. Things that have been left unsaid for far too long, and have just now made their

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lyndsay Taylor
• Release date: Apr 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781989795125

Lyndsay Taylor

Is an artist and newly published writer who is an exceptional dreamer, adventure seeker, believer, and hopeless romantic. She prefers to write stories about her life in the form of heartfelt poems, which are a means to cope with many of the difficult things she has been through in her life. Poetry has always been her release. A concrete way for her to connect with herself and her past, and ultimately create something that was constantly changing.

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Loving Me To Pieces

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ISBN 978-1-989795-11-8

ISBN 9781989795125

Book Design & Formatting: Beth Huston

Illustration & Cover: Mitch Green

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loving me to pieces

about the book

Loving Me To Pieces is a collection of very raw and personal poems that derive from my own life’s experiences, thoughts and creativity. In this book, there are a million little things that are worked out delicately through the written word.

Things that have been left unsaid for far too long, and have just now made their way to the surface, with every piece of courage that was missing.

It explores the depth of pieces that have been lost, lonely and broken, as well as pieces that were found. Pieces which have been unaccepted by others, and worse, myself.

These are things that I have worked hard to define, and have learned through the process, that sometimes leaving them undefined, and learning to love them as they are, is enough.

The words written in this book cover a range of topics from struggles with mental health, to self-discovery, acceptance of oneself, sheer bravery, love and relationships, and how to navigate through this world with nothing but a reminder to always believe in oneself.

It is about love. Self love specifically, as well as what others need to understand or accept about me, and what it has taken to learn to love myself, and all of my broken pieces.

I hope this book helps and inspires others to worry less about who they are supposed to be, or who others would like them to be, and to decide for themselves, embracing and loving all of their little, imperfect pieces.

If you came

for a girl

Who is perfectly

Unafraid

Of her own

World,

You’ve entered

The wrong

One.

If you’ve come

For a girl

Who is unbroken

And steadfast,

With a heart

Stronger,

Than your undying

Nerve,

Then turn back

Around.

She doesn’t

Exist

Here

The best of us arise

Only after we have been

Broken, crumbled

On the floor.

Left only to collect

Our pieces.

One scrap of our lonely, beating, human

Hearts at a time.

And then we rise.

rise

the greatest benefit

The greatest

Benefit

To being

A little bit

Broken is..

You tend to see

Yourself

And the world

In a million

Other,

Different,

Yet beautiful

Pieces,

Rather than

Just