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    All the Things I Should've Told You: Poems on Love, Grief & Resilience
    All the Things I Should've Told You: Poems on Love, Grief & Resilience
    All the Things I Should've Told You: Poems on Love, Grief & Resilience
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    All the Things I Should've Told You: Poems on Love, Grief & Resilience

    By Shayla Raquel

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    My soul bleeds.

    Once punctured,

    It trickles down the page

    Until it spills, spills, spills.

    There is no damming the stream

    Of my soul.

    The cut is too deep.

    It is a surge now.

    And I must bleed it all out to heal.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShayla Raquel
    Release dateMar 10, 2021
    ISBN9781393688563
    All the Things I Should've Told You: Poems on Love, Grief & Resilience

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      All the Things I Should've Told You - Shayla Raquel

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      Also by Shayla Raquel

      Pre-Publishing Checklist

      The Rotting (in the anthology Shivers in the Night)

      The Suicide Tree

      The 10 Commandments of Author Branding

      All the Things

      I Should’ve Told You

      poems on

      love, grief & resilience

      shayla raquel

      © 2021 Shayla Raquel

      All the Things I Should’ve Told You

      First edition, February 2021

      Curiouser Editing LLC

      Yukon, OK

      shaylaraquel.com

      Editing: Sarah Liu, threefatesediting.com

      Publishing and Design Services: Melinda Martin, melindamartin.me

      All the Things I Should’ve Told You is under copyright protection. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

      ISBN:

      978-1-7341357-3-2 (paperback),

      978-1-7341357-4-9 (hardcover)

      To Lauren Brooke Elena Alejandra De La Rosa-Hull:

      I cannot wait to hug you in heaven.

      I love you with all my heart.

      Contents

      A Letter from the Author

      Toxicity

      The Past Tense

      In Heaven

      Laceration

      I Wish You Could See Your Potential

      The Day of Your Funeral

      The Box

      Love at First Taste

      No Thank You

      Bitterness

      Heartbreak

      I Lied

      Killin’ Me

      Stagnant

      Family

      Cruelty

      Freedom

      The Same Way

      Email

      To the People Who Broke My Heart

      Impatient

      When We Planned Your Funeral

      All the Things I Should’ve Told You

      Mosaic

      OCEAN

      I Love You

      The Race to You

      Just Some Memories

      Wrapped Up

      In the Moment

      Pining

      Hang On to Me

      Fire

      Good Night

      Only You

      Are You Awake?

      Just a Crush

      In My Eyes

      To Me

      So This Is Love

      Love Is

      When Was It?

      About the Author

      A Letter from the Author

      Poetry is an intimate moment between the writer and her soul.

      And so, my most intimate moments from the last two years flood these pages. I let my soul

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