My experience waiting for someone whom I thought was promised to be “my person” by God, is the experience that inspired this collection of poetry. I believe that God speaks to us in many ways, whether through signs, or through His Word, and I truly believed, with all my heart, that God promised this boy to me. This went on for five years, so the poems in this work were all written over the span of 5 years. There are three parts to the book. This book includes a “Prologue” poem which I believe describes the whole theme of the book, and an “Epilogue” poem as well. As the book goes on, my hope begins to waver, and I slowly realize that this isn’t the boy for me. I tried to make that apparent in the way I ordered the poems, so it seems like the reader is going on this journey with me. In part one, the theme of these poems are more hopeful than the rest of the parts. These were written in the beginning of this season. There are a lot of poems about waiting and longing in this part. In part two my hope begins to waver, and towards the end it is completely gone. A lot of these poems are about love but also my struggles with depression, and anxiety. In the beginning of part 3 is the peak of my hopelessness. I slowly begin to come out of it as my life begins to change and I decide to move out on my own to another state. Which results in me being on my own for the first time. A few of my poems explore that experience, including when 6 months later I decide to come home. Coming home, I still longed to be with this person, Until I slowly began to realize he wasn’t the one for me. I do have a definitive poem about that realization, and the book ends on the theme it started with, hope, but in a new form. In the love God has for me, which is truly all I need. I have already written all of the poems that I want going into this book, and the book comes to about 53 pages. I originally wanted it to be longer, but since the chapter of my life that this book is based on is over, I didn’t feel like I should continue.