I Will Not Fix Your Ruins

Hi! I really enjoyed reading your poetry. Your words create such strong emotions, but I felt they could become even more powerful with visuals.

I’m a freelance artist with 3 years of experience, and I can turn the feelings and imagery in your poems into illustrations so readers can actually see the words come to life. We could even start with one poem or a few stanzas as a small project.

I’d also love to share a few ideas on how visuals could help you reach a wider audience and create another way to benefit from your poetry.

If you’re interested, feel free to reach me here:

llunarlibrary@gmail.com
Instagram: @lunaartsoul

Warm Regards,
LunarLibrary

Hi, Gel.
I hope you are well.

This poem is a clear, courageous act of self?recognition. Its strength lies in how gently it names harm without ever becoming cruel, and how it traces the speaker’s journey from quiet endurance to self?restoration. The repeated imagery of light, ruins, and distance creates a powerful emotional arc: the speaker begins in a place of dimming themselves for another, and ends in a place of rebuilding, reclaiming, and choosing wholeness.

The most striking insight is how the poem reframes love—not as sacrifice or repair, but as something that should wake the soul, not shatter it. That line marks the turning point: the speaker stops interpreting their suffering as devotion and begins to understand it as misalignment. The final stanza completes the transformation with a firm, dignified resolve: choosing solitude over self?erasure, truth over longing, and self?rebuilding over rescuing someone who will not meet them.

It’s a poem of boundaries, clarity, and renewal—quiet in tone, but profound in its emotional honesty.