What We Carried is a deeply personal collection of poetry written in the quiet aftermath of grief, womanhood, and loss. These poems were born from the moments when emotions became too heavy to hold silently, the nights filled with questions, the aching, the tenderness, the memories, the prayers, and the love that remained even after everything changed.

Written over the year following my abortion, this collection became a place for me to pour every feeling I could not explain out loud. Some poems feel like conversations, some like confessions, some like prayers whispered into the dark. Together, they tell the story of what so many women carry emotionally but rarely speak about.

What We Carried is not only about abortion. It is about motherhood, heartbreak, relationships, grief, femininity, longing, and the complicated ways love can live beside loss. Every poem holds a different emotion, some soft, some raw, some comforting, some painful, because healing is never only one thing.

This book was written for the women who have carried these feelings quietly within themselves. For the women searching for their emotions in words. For the women who need to know that even in grief, there is still beauty, tenderness, and connection to be found.