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Shattered Dreams in Light by Brandon Flesher is one man's journey through the darkest territories of the human heart. His poems confront the brutal truths we hide from ourselves, the self-deceptions we cling to, the toxic patterns we repeat, and the weight of grief that threatens to consume us.Flesher's poems speak of profound loss-aching tributes to a loved one taken too soon, where memory becomes both sanctuary and an unbearable wound. He writes with surgical precision about the cycles that trap us: relationships built on objectification rather than love, the distractions we use to avoid painful truths, and the choices that haunt us in retrospect.These are poems about falling, failing, and the fierce determination to keep standing. Brandon Flesher was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in Moline, Illinois. After receiving his paramedic license and working briefly as a paramedic, he moved from the hot and humid Gulf Coast of Alabama to the other extreme of the weather spectrum in Minnesota, where he currently lives with his dog. Brandon wasn't inspired to write poetry until arriving in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but his love of reading began at an early age with stories like King Arthur and His Knight of the Round Table as well as the plays of Shakespeare. He regards Goethe, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard to be among his biggest writing influences.