I Wrote This For You Paperback – December 1, 2011

I read to my grandfather from this book at the hospital for days. I bookmarked passages that I loved with torn up tissue papers because I couldn't stand to leave his side. We took breaks from the heartfelt, 20 page letter his daughter (my aunt) had sent him to beg him to hold on. She is in prison in another state, and she couldn't see her father in his last days. She wrote about forgiveness, on God and love and compassion, and on my grandfather's strength and love for us all. On our love for him back.He never responded, but I know he heard me read him this. I know he heard her talking to him on the phone. I know he heard me whisper in his ear, late and night and long after everyone else had fallen asleep, "You're okay. Thank you. I'm sorry. You've been so brave. Your sister is coming. Soon you won't have to hold on any more. I'm so sorry. I love you. I promise to take care of everyone. I promise everyone is going to be okay. Please hold on a little longer. I love you..."When they finally took off all the tubes, he didn't stir much as his blood pressure slowly but steadily dropped. He didn't open his eyes, but... I know he heard his family, all crowding around to show how much they love him.I know he heard us singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as his heart rate slowed.I read this book again on the plane ride home. I can't count how many times I've read it since.... If you didn't like the book, it's because you're not the one he wrote it for. Give it to someone that looks like they might be.

It's a fantastic of what i guess you can call a new age poetry. I'm not exactly a reader of poetry, so if i'm wrong well whatever. It isn't what you'd read in high school that much is for sure. But I've read once that every page feels like it was literally directed at you. More often than not it really does. Sometimes you can read one and have no clue what it is about. Well all i can say is then that one wasn't meant for help you out. However excellent read, I've been a long time reader of the site. When I heard about a book, my first thought was I'd totally buy it. When I found out it was out, I didn't look back I needed it in my house, it will always be one of my prized possessions. If a second compilation is made I'll end up buying that too.

This book is just amazing. The best way, I think, to describe it, is beautifully depressing. This is more than a book. It is every thought in my mind and all the things I've yet to think. It's everything I've wanted to say, all the words I've never spoken. I've never read anything so beautiful and pure. This says everything, while saying nothing at all. It says that everything will be OK, no matter the circumstance. And it says that nothing is impossible, as long as you believe it. Love is a tragedy and this book just captures everything about that. It shows how beautiful love can be, as well. It just captures everything in such a powerful and fragile way. It is the essence of life itself and I feel like these words have changed me and given me hope. I feel like if I hadn't read this, then I'd just be empty.

I first read snippets of this for free online. I don't know what website it was even on, but I remembered the name and was happily surprised to see it available for purchase on amazon!I thought to myself "Really?? Could it be the same author??" And it was!Perhaps I was fated to read more of this beautiful work. However, I have one complaint. For me, the haunting and sometimes eerie images really detracted from the poems. One of the most beautiful things about poetry is the reader's ability to draw their own conclusions and meanings, along with imagining their own images to go along with the poems. So the author providing images seemed leading and just overall unwelcome.Don't get me wrong. The photography was good, quality wise, but there was never a time when I thought to myself "How nice, that picture adds to the poem!" Not once. Instead I found myself wishing I could somehow remove them.This is a shame because I'm sure the author put alot of thought and love into adding them for us.One sign of good writing is simply this; images are not necessary. Poetry is able to take something deep and complex and reduce it to as little as two words. THAT is the beauty of it! No need to add photos or imagery. It is your WORDS that should resonate (And in this case they truly do! :) ).

read it until you feel like it was written for you. I was redirected to this book via another book of poems that I came on here to buy (which I will not name). After perusing a few of its pages I didn't have the urge to click pay, when I saw this as books others bought I clicked "Look inside" devouring the pictures and words all in one fell swoop. This collection made me feel so sad that there isn't someone out there who I impacted so much that his love and pain would come pouring out like this. I'm so glad I found this little gem because even though it made me cry it also makes me happy to know that in my times of heartbreak I am not alone and that you can be healed.

I was attracted to this piece by the cover and the cheesy title. I came across it during a point in my life when I was emotionally and mentally exhausted and just fed up with everything. I hoped that something in this book was going to reach out to me and shake me from my fog, and it didn't disappoint.I loved this work for its stunning and sometimes strange images placed between all of the challenging, thought-provoking and quietly beautiful poems carefully put together here. Sometimes the poems are soft and tender, and sometimes they are jarring and elusive, but always they are moving in one way or another. This collection is going to stay with me for a long time, and I am so glad I made the purchase.