The Breaking: No Love — Poems of Shadows and Survival (Book One of Unbroken: A Three-Part Becoming)

The Breaking gathers poems written between 2006 and 2010, capturing the early emotional landscape of a girl shaped by instability, abandonment, and displacement. Through a child’s perspective, the collection explores fractured attachments, unsafe homes, and the desperate search for love where nurture is inconsistent or withheld. Structured through thematic movements—Fractures & Falling, Echoes of Abandonment, Hungers & Illusions, Betrayal & Captivity, Residue & Reckoning, and Collapse & Clarity—the book traces her progression from innocence into painful awareness. Imagination, spiritual grounding, and inner strength emerge as survival mechanisms in the absence of stability. The Breaking stands as the origin of a larger journey, offering an intimate, honest testament to the children who endure hardship.