Justin Powell

Back to the Boy Justin Powell

A collection of raw poetry, describing the rise and fall of romance. It describes the process of love in four stages: recover, relapse, relive, and renew. In every heartbreak, there is the initial recovery where we think we have gotten better; we get over it. But then, we see that person in public, or we catch a scent of their cologne and relapse. We weren't really over them - that's just what we told ourselves. To really move on, though, we have to relive. Accept the good and bad of what it was and even what it could have been. Most importantly, recognize what it will NOT be. Finally, we renew. We start again.