Poetry & Prose

Words that stay with you.

Before EMBER was worn, it was written. These books explore love, survival, loss, healing, connection, and becoming — the full range of what it means to feel everything and still choose to keep going.

Sacred Love Letters to You

EMBER

The Story of an Expanding Universe

Sacred Love Letters to You

A collection of moments, feelings, and truths — captured in the spaces between love and letting go. This isn't just a story about someone else. It's about what it means to feel deeply, to see someone fully, and to grow through the kind of love that changes you.

Selected excerpt

You were never too much.

You were just too much

for someone

who was not enough.

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Kayla Laakso

Where It Stayed

This is not a story about love. It's about what happens when it no longer feels like something you have to survive. About the quiet moments that don't ask anything of you. About finding something that stays — without needing to be held onto. And realizing, for the first time, that maybe you're allowed to stay too.

Selected excerpt

For the first time,

love did not feel

like something

I had to earn.

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Where It Stayed

EMBER

The Ghost of You

EMBER

A collection of poems about survival, longing, becoming, and the unseen worlds we carry within us.

The Ghost of You

Some ghosts do not belong to the dead. They live in the spaces between who we were and who we are becoming. They are the versions of ourselves survival created — the masks we wore, the smiles we rehearsed, the wounds we carried long after the bleeding stopped. For anyone who has ever mourned a version of themselves. For anyone who has ever loved someone through the ghost of them. And for anyone still learning what it means to truly live.

Selected excerpt

Some ghosts do not belong to the dead.

They live in the spaces between

who we were

and who we are becoming.

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Featured Words

Lines that stay.

Short excerpts from the books — words written to be felt, not just read.

"You were never too much. You were just too much for someone who was not enough."

Sacred Love Letters to You

"For the first time, love did not feel like something I had to earn."

Where It Stayed

"Some ghosts do not belong to the dead. They live in the spaces between who we were and who we are becoming."

The Ghost of You

"I loved you like a religion — devotedly, blindly, and at great personal cost."

Sacred Love Letters to You

"You stayed. Not because you had to. Not because you didn't know how to leave. But because you wanted to."

Where It Stayed

"For anyone still learning what it means to truly live."

The Ghost of You

From page to piece

Some words aren't meant to stay on the page.

Selected poems and fragments become limited EMBER pieces — turning words once written to survive into something you can carry with you.

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From Sacred Love Letter

You were never too much.

You were just too much

for someone

who was not enough.

Collaborate with EMBER

Your story belongs here, too.

EMBER is accepting selected collaborations from poets, writers, photographers, illustrators, designers, musicians, and other artists whose work aligns with themes of survival, love, loss, healing, identity, and becoming.

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Poetry Letters

Let the words find you.

New poems. New pieces. New stories from EMBER.