The Rooms I Leave Lit: Thoughts on life & living....

The Rooms I Leave Lit ...is an intimate collection of autobiographical poetry about love, loneliness, memory, ageing, and the long search for somewhere to belong.Moving through childhood abandonment, fractured relationships, life across different countries, and the silence of growing older far from home, D'arcy writes with honesty about the private experiences many people carry but rarely speak aloud.These poems explore what it means to love after disappointment, to live alone without becoming invisible, and to continue creating when the world feels distant. Scotland, America, Estonia, old houses, empty rooms, winter streets, missed calls, ageing bodies, and unfinished goodbyes all become part of a deeply personal emotional landscape.At the heart of the collection is one recurring image: a light left burning in an otherwise dark house. It becomes a symbol of memory, endurance, and the quiet refusal to disappear.Tender, direct, and emotionally unguarded, The Rooms I Leave Lit is for anyone who has felt forgotten, displaced, difficult to love, or uncertain where home truly is, processed by a neurodivergent mind.It is a book about the people who leave, the rooms that remember them, and the small lights we keep burning for the person we may still become.