I Survived

Survival is not neat. It is jagged. It is quiet. It is still beautiful.

In i survived: poems on loss and becoming, Mira Lorne invites us into the raw and tender spaces where grief and love meet. Through five movements - the breaking, the silence, the remembering, the mending, and the becoming - this collection traces the fragile yet resilient arc of survival after loss.

These poems do not offer tidy answers or quick healing. Instead, they linger in the pauses, the cracks, the unfinished edges of sorrow. They explore the silence that follows heartbreak, the ache of memory, and the slow, almost imperceptible work of mending. With language both minimal and luminous, Mira reminds us that survival is not about erasing pain - it is about carrying it, reshaping it, and learning to bloom within it.

For anyone who has known absence, who has wrestled with shadows, or who has searched for light after the darkest night, these poems offer both recognition and quiet hope.

They are a hand extended in the dark, a whisper that says: you are not alone.

i survived is more than a poetry collection-it is a meditation on what it means to keep breathing, keep moving, and keep becoming. It is a book for the broken, the healing, and the ones still rising.

Because survival is not just living after loss.
It is becoming someone new.