Everything I Never Told You: Poems

This book is for all the love that slipped through your fingers-and never really left.

In her debut collection, Everything I Never Told You, Instagram poet Kylie Kelly writes with striking clarity about the heartbreak we carry quietly: the people we almost loved, the promises we almost kept, and the versions of ourselves we lost along the way. These poems are love notes to past lovers, to heartbreak, to the ghosts of what could have been. They read like confessions: moments never spoken aloud, feelings we try to forget but never quite do.

This collection traces the outlines of our old love, the love that haunts. The kind of love that still lives in the shadows when we meet someone new, thrives in the quiet spaces we don't always know how to talk about-the things we carry long after the moment has passed.

It's a portrait of unrequited love, of falling too hard for people who fascinate us, and the bittersweet dance of holding on and letting go.

Everything I Never Told You is for anyone who still thinks about the almosts-and wonders if maybe, in another life, it could've been everything. If you've ever replayed a moment, rewritten a conversation in your head, or held on to a memory like it still had a pulse-this is for you.