This poetry is the voice forged through the throngs of psychological manipulation. It is a voice whose volume slowly increases to a fever pitch, shattering the illusion created through mirroring. Behind the shattered pieces of that mirror, we then discover a small escape hatch! You will then follow the poems who chronicle the thrilling escape, celebration, and reclamation of one's freedom. There are poems that grapple with the aftermath of abuse & poems that learn to dream again. This book will both break your heart and somehow heal it back together. It is the reckoning, the release, and the reconciliation. It wrestles with the thick taffy of spiritual manipulation & the glimmering clarity of truth. You will hear the reclamation of one's own personal faith emerging through the clouded ether of once weaponized scripture. Here, in your hands, rests not only a collection, but a narrative. This book, these poems, are a story. This is my story. I feel so grateful to so artfully share it through the only medium I know that can so tactfully capture such a profound experience: poetry.