The Naked Truth Poetry Series
This is the true story of the author’s life, told in narrative poems and notes to lovers and friends. It’s the poetry version of her diary, sprinkled with psychology, analyzing her infatuations and toxic relationships in her hunt for love.
What does she want, why does she feel empty—why are the bad boys always the most tempting?
How did shy, twenty-something Liz end up at an ‘adult’ club with a charming, polyamorous salsa dancer who can never be hers? How did she fall in non-love with this devil-sexy, emotionally unavailable man, a decade older, who takes her for granted? It’s clearly a toxic situation, so why can’t she get out? How did it start? How did she lose herself? Distraught, she delves into her poetry diary and analyzes the psychology of her past.
She started out innocent and inexperienced, but her problem was, she got addicted to people, the wrong people—like a mysterious Latin dancer who had her wrapped around his little finger, a smooth, French hostel owner when she went solo travelling through western Europe, a sweet boy with kind eyes in Paris. Each one pulled her close in his arms. They all tried to get her to break her rules. They gave her attention. They made her feel special. She knew it wasn’t love; it was ecstasy—
But wasn’t that almost better?
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She feels more alone than ever, trying to fill the void, and when her last hope is shattered, she starts to lose control
Liz always thought she was a confident and content single twenty-something, but that was before she got mixed up with bad boys, before she got brokenhearted, burned and addicted. How did she start mixing drinking with kissing, stuck on strangers who didn’t care about her? How did she go from being the perfect, Christian, good girl to slowly and steadily breaking her rules?
Desperate to understand her wounded heart, Liz traces her own steps back through her 2016 and 2017 poetry diary, analyzing herself and her insecure attachment style, which had her bouncing from crush to crush like a pinball, constantly falling for strangers. And yet, what drew her to that boy in Paris, kept her heart yo-yoing back to her favourite salsa dancer at home, had her latching on to that guy from Miami? She needed these connections like she needed to dance. That is, until she broke her heart, sank into depression and her whole world fell apart. Now, it wasn’t just Latin dancing that she clung to for survival; she needed something more—
Like alcohol while partying, like getting it on with bad boys.
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Kissing on Spanish streets, booking AirBnB—how many guys will it take to set her free?
Looking back through her 2017 solo travelling trip in her poetry diary, full of ravenous, yet lonely nights of passion, Liz now knows it wasn’t heartbreak that drove her into strangers’ arms. It was something deeper—it was her anxious attachment style. But she didn’t know that then, when she was twenty-five, feeling abandoned and decimated, determined to find something better: dirty goodness in Sevilla, drunken makeouts in Madrid, dance floor desire in Barcelona and romantic chivalry in Paris. But the man she was dying to see was the one that wasn’t there.
Up until this trip, Liz had preserved her purity like the rarest of flowers, but now she was throwing some of that caution to the wind and taking back her power. However, she had no idea how to ‘finish’ properly. Was it normal that she was breathless with one guy and bored with another? She wouldn’t rest until she filled the emptiness inside, but would tangling bodies late at night bring her back to life,
Or would she just keep on dying?