Human Truths
Human Truths is a collection of poems about real life, stripped back, unfiltered, and written from lived experience rather than theory.
Human Truths is where abstraction falls away.
This section is not about ideas, systems, or hidden layers of the world. It’s about what it feels like to live inside a human body – to carry memory, contradiction, fatigue, humour, regret, dignity, and persistence through ordinary days.
These poems come from moments most people don’t dress up or talk about. Small frictions. Quiet recognitions. Social discomfort. Private resolve. The gap between who we are expected to be and what we actually experience.
There is no philosophy here to lean on.
No lesson being taught.
No improvement programme implied.
Just lived reality, spoken plainly.
Human Truths holds pieces about identity without slogans, belonging without approval, intelligence without performance, and difference without apology. Some of these poems are light. Some are awkward. Some sit uncomfortably close to home. That closeness is the point.
This is where the work is most exposed.
If these poems feel simple, it’s because the truths they touch don’t need decoration. If they feel heavy, it’s because they’re carrying things most people are taught to ignore.
This section isn’t asking for agreement.
Only recognition.
Poems in this section
Skin Colour So Profound
The Pigeon Saga
Welcome
Be You
The Wrong Question Is it flat or is it globe?
Ring the Roots, Wake the Sky
The Dyslexic misfits
Intelligence
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