Views of a Broken Mind

Views of a Broken Mind is a deeply personal collection of poetry that explores what happens when love, loss, grief, fatherhood, depression, and regret begin to occupy the same mind.Written across different periods of D. Mykel Avant's life, these poems follow the gradual unraveling of a man who has spent years loving deeply, losing painfully, carrying others, and struggling to understand the pieces of himself left behind.There is no single moment where everything breaks. Instead, the collection moves through the experiences that slowly change a person: the loss of a child, the death of a mother, the responsibility of fatherhood, battles with mental health, and the dangerous places the mind can wander when reality becomes harder to carry.Some poems mourn. Some confess. Some question. Others reveal thoughts that are usually left unspoken.Together, they form exactly what the title promises: views of a broken mind.