Shona Claudinah
Not everything that ends has failed. Some things were never meant to stay.It Wasn’t Always Supposed to Last by Shona Claudinah is a collection of poems on endings, letting go, and beginning again-for anyone learning to release what they once hoped would last forever.Through five movements-The Leaving, The Ache, The Turning, The Rebuilding, and The Light these short, intimate poems explore the love that was real but no longer right, the friendship you outgrew, the apology that never came, and the quiet work of learning to trust yourself again.With tenderness and honesty, Claudinah makes room for grief without rushing it. Her words explore boundaries, self-worth, solitude, and the ordinary acts through which a life is rebuilt. Reflection questions offer space to pause and consider what you are carrying and what you are ready to put down.Whether read in order or opened to the page that meets you where you are, this collection offers gentle companionship through change.An ending does not erase what mattered. Beginning again does not mean beginning with nothing.