The poetry collection “IT ALL STARTED AT 8 P.M." explores the themes of depression, love, obsession, and psychotic break- down. That could be one way to respond to the query, "How can you be heard without speaking? According to the author, the concept of love is what sparks imagination, the act of waiting, and the realization that one is about to lose something. The metaphor that is supposed to make her happy when she has it ultimately leads to her downfall and drives her to the verge of insanity or has she already lost her mind?
Years pass while the main character waits for the man in the brown cardigan beneath the plane tree. However, nobody knows why, including him. She pens letters in an attempt to connect with him spiritually. She follows several romantic pathways due to her addiction without realizing what she is waiting for. Her manifesting materializes a few years later.The man in the brown cardigan appears where she wants him to be. Over the years, a number of clandestine meetings have taken place in locations that should remain unknown to the public. Because nobody should’ve known. Why must that be kept under wraps? The pro- tagonist places prickly wires between herself and the metaphor because she is afraid and humiliated that love is haunting her, but she chooses to remain under the same plane tree. Years fly, and the man finds the letters, responding to them with his own point of view. This double-sided story leaves the decision to the reader: Who is the actual villain?
Written in 2024, "IT ALL STARTED AT 8 P.M." seeks to take the reader on a trip through a process of aching and doing nothing to end the misery. It tells the tale of a captive person who finds joy in feeling trapped. An engrossing and captivating tale of poisonous love that challenges your understanding of what love actually is.The kind that is described in this book is definitely not the one of love you want to experience.