The Loss of You & Me: Haiku in Four Acts - Paperback

by M. O. Dada (Author)

Every love story ends somewhere. This one ends in fifty-eight breaths.

The Loss of You & Me is a haiku collection that maps the full arc of a relationship - from the giddy gravity of falling in love, through the gut-punch of betrayal, into the silent wreckage of heartbreak, and finally toward the fragile work of rebuilding a self.

Structured in four acts - Attachment, Betrayal, Collapse, Survival - each spare, three-line poem captures a single unbearable moment: the scent of her hair on a pillow, a phone left unlocked, an empty shelf where photographs used to stand. Nothing is explained. Everything is felt.

M O Dada writes grief the way it actually arrives - not in paragraphs, but in flashes. This is a book for anyone who has loved completely, lost devastatingly, and is still learning how to say "me" again after so long saying "us."

Approximately 90 pages. A quick, powerful read - perfect for one sitting or one poem a day.