What Hurt, What Healed, What Held Me: A Collection of Thoughts About Loving, Losing, and Learning to Return Softly

The poetry of Lakesha Latasha gives a voice to the moments that broke her, the love that opened her, the losses that reshaped her, and the quiet yet steady things that held her together.

Lakesha’s poetry transforms into a tapestry of human experience written in pieces: in the silence of grief, in the heat of unexpected intimacy, and in the slow rebuilding that follows heartbreak.

These poems are an invitation to anyone finding their way back-one truth, one wound, one soft landing at a time.