The Intimacy of Being Understood: a collection poems

What if the deepest form of love... is simply being understood?In The Intimacy of Being Understood, Marissa Nicole opens the quiet, unguarded corners of her heart and invites you in.This is not a book of polished endings or perfect love stories. It is a collection of raw, lyrical reflections on love, loss, healing, and the fragile, beautiful act of becoming. Each piece arrives the way life does-unpredictable, unfiltered, and achingly real. Joy and grief sit side by side. Hope flickers in the same breath as heartbreak.These poems speak to: - The kind of love that lingers long after it leaves- The ache of almosts and unfinished stories- The quiet strength of choosing yourself again- The longing to be seen-fully, honestly, without disguiseWritten with haunting honesty and poetic depth, this collection captures what it feels like to carry too much and not enough at the same time-to build homes in people, to lose them, and to find your way back to yourself anyway .Some pieces will feel like confessions.Some like closure.Some like a mirror you didn't know you needed.This book is for anyone who has ever: - Loved deeply- Lost quietly- Stayed when they should have left- Or left and still carried the echoStep inside gently. There is heartache here-but also hope.And somewhere between the lines... you just might find yourself.