In ‘Necessary Rebirths: A Collection of Poems and Prose for Awakening,’ poet and writer Nicole M. Long explores her trip through depression, anxiousness, and most of life’s in-between levels. Sometimes dark and mainly self-affirming, these poems about lifestyle as well as the resiliency of self-love provides readers a glimpse into a existence unraveling in perfect synchronicity.

‘One day time, I woke up, and I didn’t acknowledge my entire life,’ the writer remarked when talking about the book throughout a personal reading. ‘I had all about Necessary Rebirths: A Assortment of Poems and Prose for Awakening these exact things to show for the lifestyle well-lived, but I wasn’t happy…I couldn’t help but think, ‘Wow, is this all there is alive?”

The author describes this publication as a coming of age, one where a target watch produced the starting pad to make peace with days gone by and commanding a brighter long term. Written over 3 years, this collection of 122 poems and prose circumvents convention and goals for integrity and authenticity.

Through shorter pieces like ‘i belong to no one,’ and ‘one source,’ Nicole laments in the assumed responsibility that comes with taking part in an interdependent family and the idea that we all of the originate from the same God-like energy. While much longer pieces like ‘intimacy and me,’ and ‘keeper of self’ displays the author’s development in recognizing accountability for herself and the chaos she brought in to the lives of others.

Nicole concludes ‘Rebirths’ ends on the lighter be aware to remind us that pure magic unfolds when we slow down and silence the sound of our minds.