Words After Waking

Words After Waking is a poetic meditation on becoming - a personal journey through reflection, resilience, and revelation. Blending prayer-like prose with grounded vulnerability and meditative precision, Colton Hamilton's debut collection offers a rare glimpse into the inner life of a modern man awakening to his values, his vision, and his voice. Across six thematic parts, the poems move through seasons of heartbreak and healing, solitude and connection, masculine responsibility and spiritual rebirth. Each verse is a step in the author's own pilgrimage toward wholeness-and a gentle call for others to undertake their own.This is not simply a book of poems. It is a record of awakenings, a journal of inner reconstruction, and a poetic offering to anyone who seeks stillness, strength, and truth.