SAVE ME AN ORANGE

SAVE ME AN ORANGE
Poems About Growing Through Pain, Finding Connection, and Choosing to Stay

What if the things that save us are smaller than we ever imagined?

A friend who stays up late.
A song you forgot you loved.
Sunlight on the bedroom floor.
A quiet morning when nothing goes wrong.
Half an orange saved for you by someone who knows you'll be back.

Save Me an Orange is a deeply intimate collection of 100 poems about growing up, carrying invisible pain, navigating loneliness, and slowly discovering that life can still hold tenderness after difficult seasons.

Across ten emotional chapters, these poems move through childhood memories, the complicated years of adolescence, things left unsaid, friendships that become lifelines, learning to accept your own reflection, and the ordinary moments that make healing feel possible.

This is a collection for anyone who has ever felt too much, said too little, or wondered whether they would ever feel at home in their own life.

For anyone who remembers being sixteen and thinking the world might end.

For anyone who needed someone to ask, "Are you okay?" and stay long enough to hear the real answer.

For anyone learning that survival does not always look heroic.

Sometimes it looks like breakfast.

Sometimes it looks like answering a message.

Sometimes it looks like laughing again.

And sometimes, it looks like someone saying:

Save me an orange.

Tender without being sentimental, honest without losing hope, Save Me an Orange is a reminder that healing is rarely one dramatic moment. More often, it is a collection of tiny reasons to keep moving forward.

There are still mornings you haven't seen.

There are still songs you haven't heard.

There are still people you haven't met.

There are still ordinary miracles waiting for you.

And there may still be an orange with your name on it.