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While We Were Young: Poems on Time, Memory, and Regrets
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 7 2025
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
While We Were Young is a haunting, tender, and deeply human journey through the landscapes of time-an intimate collection of poems that traces the fragile arc from childhood innocence to the quiet reckonings of adulthood. Arya Dawn invites the reader into a world of half-remembered summers, forgotten doorways, first heartbreaks, old houses that still hum with the echoes of our younger selves, and the bittersweet realizations that arrive only after the years have passed.
These poems explore what it means to grow up, to break open, to love fiercely, to lose quietly, and to return-again and again-to the memories that shaped us. They speak to the moments we wish we could hold forever, the mistakes we wish we could soften, and the versions of ourselves we abandoned without meaning to. Through lyrical storytelling and emotional honesty, the collection captures the universal truth that we carry every age we've ever been, every choice we've ever made, and every regret that still whispers in the dark.
While We Were Young is a book for anyone who has stood at the threshold of the past and wondered what might have been different-yet also found beauty in what remains. It is for those who seek to understand their own becoming, to forgive the tender and uncertain selves they once were, and to find meaning in the memories that refuse to fade.
Poignant, introspective, and luminously written, this collection reminds us that youth is not a place we lose, but a light we learn to carry.
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