Chemicals Between Us

by Persephone Autumn

Genres: Literary Fiction; literary fiction; contemporary poetry; sad poetry; grief and healing; emotional

Synopsis

From USA Today Bestselling Author Persephone Autumn comes a poetry collection featuring love, heartbreak, mental health, and healing.

 

During the most significant years of my life,

you were mine

and nothing else mattered.

Release date: January 13, 2026

Publisher: Between Words Publishing LLC

Print pages: 138

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Content advisory: Mental health - depression and anxiety; heartbreak; grief; other possible dark elements

Sample

I Just Knew

 

I remember that day

so many years ago.

I entered the unfamiliar room,

and you were already there

poised

radiant

a force I somehow knew.

I didn’t question it,

I had zero doubts,

but by some unknown flicker of intuition

I just knew

you’d be more.

And on that day,

so many years ago,

I was right.

 

 

Battle of Wills

 

It’s interesting,

the small but big moments you remember.

Those first glances,

the first time your hand grazed mine,

the teasing

and laughter

and not-so-subtle way you let me know

you wanted me.

But I didn’t make it easy,

almost refused to, actually.

Not because

I didn’t reciprocate

or want you just as desperately

or crave your touch

your taste

the feel of your skin pressed to mine.

No, I fought those urges

that hunger

that fevered desperation

because I’d been broken before,

shredded by someone who claimed to love me.

So I put up my shields,

stacked brick after brick around my heart

until the walls were impossibly high.

Little did I know,

you came prepared.

With a fierce determination,

you scaled those walls,

went over the edge

and battled for my heart.

Eventually, my resistance

was for show

evaporated

morphed into acceptance.

You fought for me,

and when I look back on it now,

that steely resolution

that intense, purposeful strength

is what shattered my defenses.