/ maiden voyage / (en Inglés) - Amber Awni

/ maiden voyage / is a deeply personal, unapologetically honest collection of poetry that explores the aftermath of loving someone who could not love safely.

Written in reflection of the author's "maiden years," these poems trace a relationship with a man who was both magnetic and destructive-a musician whose addiction and narcissistic tendencies blurred the line between passion and harm.

Unsettling and intimate, this collection does not turn away from the difficult truths: the confusion that feels like devotion, the manipulation that disguises itself as love, the slow erosion of self that lingers long after leaving.

What unfolds is both a reckoning and a record of emotional survival.

Moving through cycles of grief, anger, memory, and release, each poem captures the echoes abuse leaves behind-and the quiet, often nonlinear process of reclaiming identity. There is no neat resolution, only truth held with clarity and courage.

And still, something begins again.

Rooted in the perspective of a woman who has since built a life filled with love, family, and stability, / maiden voyage / becomes a testament to transformation-not as a perfect ending, but as the act of continuing, of remembering without returning, of becoming whole in your own way.

This is not merely a story of abuse.

It is a story of leaving, remembering, and coming home to yourself.