When The Ladder Broke

When the Ladder Broke is a collection of reflective poems about sacrifice, heartbreak, loyalty, loss, and the courage to begin again. What happens when you spend years helping someone climb, only to realise that your place in their story was never remembered? Through deeply personal and thought-provoking poems, this collection explores the unseen sacrifices people make for those they love. It speaks of dreams that change, promises that fade, wounds that are never spoken about, and the painful moment when you realise that some people remember the view from the top but forget what helped them get there. From The Climb to When the Ladder Broke, and from Learning to Stand to Beyond the Broken Ladder, the poems follow a journey through disappointment, heartbreak, self-discovery, and healing. But the broken ladder is not the end. It raises a question: when everything you built for someone else falls apart, what will you build for yourself? When the Ladder Broke is for anyone who has ever felt forgotten after giving their best, carried a weight no one noticed, loved beyond what was deserved, or had to learn how to stand again. Sometimes, the greatest ending is not finding your way back to what was lost. It is discovering what remains when you finally choose yourself.