Of Ruin and Renewal Quotes

“Sometimes,
People just aren’t going to get it
It’s an ever-elusive concept, to be understood
All you can hope for
Is that you find someone that tries.
Find someone that tries.”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“Of Ruin and Renewal


We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Sorting through the rubble
Of our painful past.

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Waiting for the dust
To settle at last

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Searching for eyes that see us
And walk through the debris

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal,
We rebuild, we revive,
We repurpose our own story.”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“The Mask

We often pair the turmoil in our mind
With a calm exterior,
Hoping that the mask
Will serve as a floodgate
To hold back the chaos
Of our swirling thoughts”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“Spilled Ink

It seemed unfair
And unfinished,
And now it would always be tragic.

Because you kept
Loving them
Even when the story ended.

And there was nowhere
To spill the ink
Of the heartbreak their absence wrote.”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding

“Atlantis

People would whisper about us
And our fall from grace
As our world fell to ruin
And our worst fears were realized,
We’d be submerged and forgotten
The stuff of speculation.
Legend at best,
We were a lost city,
Singing our siren ballads
Of heartbreak and woe
From the depths below,
We were here!
We were here.
We were here…”
― Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding