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After the Last Breath: Poems on Death, Grief, and Mourning
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2025
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Grief arrives quietly, then claims every corner of your life.
It is in the empty chair, the silent room, the photograph that no longer smiles back.
In After the Last Breath, Mira Lorne takes readers on a tender, unflinching journey through death, loss, and mourning, offering a space where sorrow is not denied but honored, and where love, though absent in form, continues to breathe.
This collection spans the raw shock of departure, the heavy weight of absence, and the slow, often painful path toward renewal. Through these poems, Mira Lorne guides us from the stillness of loss to the quiet flickers of hope that follow.
Recurring motifs anchor the work, creating a landscape where mourning is both personal and universal, intimate and expansive.
After the Last Breath does not promise to heal grief, for grief is not a wound to be closed. Instead, it becomes a companion, a mirror, a lantern in the night, showing that survival is not forgetting, and that love never truly ends.
It reminds readers that absence transforms rather than erases, that memory carries the touch of those we have lost, and that mourning can, in its own time, open doors to light and renewal.
This is a book for anyone who has faced the quiet devastation of death, for those who carry love forward in the presence of absence, and for all who seek comfort in words that acknowledge both sorrow and the enduring power of the human heart.
After the last breath, love is the air we continue to breathe.
And these poems are its witness.
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