Synopsis:

Young love. Summer lust. Hopeless futures.

Focusing on poems of infatuation, love, and disillusion, Stages of a Scattered Mess will have every hopeless romantic reminiscing on what could have been. These poems are for those who have loved, for those who have committed, and for those who have lost it all. Patrick Johns’s raw emotions allow readers to reconnect with their past relationships and put together the missing pieces. This is a story of young love and hopeless futures, but more importantly, a story of apprehension and growth.

Synopsis:

Recurring nightmares. Painful scars. Heartbreaking betrayals.

A breakup can feel even more painful than losing a loved one. When the person who betrayed your heart still walks this earth, there’s always a slight hope of recovering what is gone. And instead of moving on, you’re trapped in wondering what once was, leaving you tangled in recurring nightmares and forever marked with painful scars. But time heals all wounds, and the perfect way to overcome this insufferable stage is by connecting.

Patrick Johns releases his broken heart in Stages of a Breakup. Focusing on poems of denial, anger, and depression, this poetry collection portrays the struggles Johns faced from his adolescence to adulthood when he had his heart broken. Taking his honest thoughts from his old block phones, phone notes, and crumpled papers lying in his closet, Johns looks back on his own past relationships to recast his raw emotions, allowing readers to connect to the agony, the trauma, the suffering faced during a breakup.

This is a story of young love and heartbreaking betrayals, but more importantly, a story of apprehension and growth.

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Inescapable change. Shattering Forgiveness. Heart-wrenching goodbyes.

Time passes. The one you loved is now a distant stranger. Instead of dwelling over the heartache, you’ve come to find a sense of forgiveness and acceptance. It still hurts. It will always hurt. But while your heart has been stripped down and repaired, you have grown to learn that moving forward stronger than before is the healthy way to mend a broken heart.

Patrick Johns pours his heart out one more time in Stages of a Healing Heart, focusing on poems of false acceptance and moving on. This third and final installment of A Broken Heart Poetry Collection shares the honest emotions Johns endured during the healing process of his breakups from his adolescence to adulthood. Scraping words from his old block phones and crumpled papers lying in his closet, Johns looks back on his own past relationships to recast his raw emotions, allowing readers to connect to the affliction and heartache that comes with the acceptance of moving on.

This is a story of young love and heartbreaking betrayals, but more importantly, a story of apprehension and growth.

Synopsis:

I Trusted You With My Heart is an emotionally raw poetry chapbook focusing on the mental struggles faced during a breakup, after years of built-up trust suddenly disappear.

Whether it was summer love or love that had lasted years, a breakup can haunt even the strongest of minds. Memories that once filled you with joy now have you twisting and turning in another sleepless night. Desperate, you run through every single situation, from the first time you met to the moment you said goodbye. You struggle to put together pieces that don’t fit, trying to find some kind of sense in a tragedy that has only one answer: You must forgive them by forgiving yourself, accept the unsolvable reality, and move on.

Patrick Johns spills his heart out onto the pages of I Trusted You With My Heart, a poetry chapbook focusing on poems of young love and broken relationships. Raw emotions taken from his old block phones and crumpled papers lying in his closet, Johns shares the struggles he faced from his adolescence to adulthood when he had his heart torn to pieces. As Johns looks back on his own past relationships, he hopes other hopeless romantics can connect and reminisce on what could have been, giving them the opportunity to reflect, acknowledge, forgive, and most importantly, move on.