This collection includes twenty-one poems I have written, in twenty-one years of age. Each has a different story, derived from one common spring. They are the clash of the moments of seemingly little hope and the desire to get out of the darkness. Thanks to music firstly and poetry secondly. As a whole, this book is the journey of a poet building a road to shout out his being while trying to perceive this thing called life.

I am Deniz Atay. I was born on the sixth of January 1994, in Istanbul, Turkey. I met with poetry when I was seventeen years old, thanks to William Blake, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost. I read and analyze and slowly began to translate their poems into Turkish. In time, I discovered so many other poets that excited my attention about the world of poetry, most especially W. B. Yeats, Katherine Mansfield, Sara Teasdale, and Edgar Allan Poe. As I was also composing music during the time, poetry helped me perceive the music and create compositions more intensively and deeply. I wrote my first poem (Teardrops) in 2011; from then on, I continued writing poetry, both in Turkish and English. I recently am a comparative literature student in Bilgi University. I still write poetry and compose music, which I am going to do for the rest of my life.