Anonymously "The Things I Couldn't Say Out Loud"

By Italya Carter and Delaney Sheridan

a collection of 44 poems written from the places we were too afraid, too broken, or too tired to speak from out loud.

Born from personal pain and the pain we witnessed in people we love, this book steps into the quiet moments of grief, loss, shame, heartbreak, faith, doubt, healing, and survival. These poems are not just ours. They belong to anyone who has ever carried something heavy in their chest and did not know how to name it.

Each page is an attempt to put language to suffering that often goes unseen. Some poems come from our own experiences. Others are written through the eyes of people we have watched struggle, friends, family, and souls we have loved deeply while standing helplessly on the outside. By stepping into their shoes, we learned that pain may look different on everyone, but it never means you are alone.