Michael Grasser

The Cold, Dark Sea Michael Grasser

What happens when someone comes along that changes your life in profound ways? What happens when you find a love and connection that you only thought existed in fairy tales? What happens when that love overflows and pours out onto a page?

The Cold, Dark Sea is a collection of poems, written over the period of a year, that tells a story of true love, loneliness, and hope for the future. It contains my heart and all of its hopes and fears...

From the back cover:

Life is like a table covered with scattered puzzle pieces. As we move through time, we try to complete our puzzle, finding pieces from many different places. Sometimes, we force pieces together that don't fit in an effort to get our puzzle together, because that is what the world expects.

But what happens later when we find the pieces that are meant to fit with our own? Do we throw them away or hide them, ashamed that we forced pieces together before? If we stick with the mismatched pieces, we will still have a completed picture in the end, but a picture of what? If we forced pieces together, the picture won?t make any sense, and we'll be disappointed in the end.

What if we were to take out the forced pieces when we find the ones that fit properly? It would be hard, and it may even seem like moving backwards or starting over. But in the end, if we use the pieces that belong together, the picture, and our lives, will be beautiful. They will be a vision of perfection, because the pieces fit, and life will be as it should have been from the start: complete.

What you will find within is a collection of poems that tell the story of my heart, after I found my missing puzzle piece...