Soft Things Don’t Last Here is a poetry collection built from memory, silence, and scars that never fully faded. Told through fifty poems and five letters, it traces the life of someone who was never allowed to be soft, only to endure. From childhood illness and abuse to betrayal, heartbreak, and the quiet weight of fatherhood, these pages unravel the kind of story most people bury. Each section holds a different version of the self: the voiceless child, the forgotten boy, the quiet protector, the betrayed partner, and finally, the father trying to build something better from the wreckage. This is not a collection of silver linings. There are no clean resolutions or easy metaphors here. What lives in these pages is raw, unfiltered truth, a brutal inventory of what it means to keep breathing when the world wants you broken. There is no false hope. Only survival. Only the echo of softness that refused to die.