Love, Regret, and Empty Rooms

The Weight We Carry — Poems of Survival, Sorrow, Love, and Grace, by Mr Frenchie Some poems tell stories. These just tell the truth. The Weight We Carry is the debut collection from Mr Frenchie — 50 poems and fragments about pain, survival, love, and grace, written plain and unfiltered, the way he’s always talked. It moves through six parts: Scars That Speak, Love, Regret, and Empty Rooms, Companions in the Dark, What We Owe One Another, Memory and Family, and The Unseen — and closes with Notebook Fragments, the rawest pages in the book. What you get: the complete collection, published chapter by chapter here on Readerful. A note: these poems speak honestly about trauma, abuse, grief, addiction, depression, and suicidal thoughts. About the author: Mr Frenchie is a poet and songwriter from Merom, Indiana, a small river town on the Wabash. His writing comes out of a life that hasn’t gone easy — and the faith and stubborn pride that carried him through it.