About the book: 2023 / The poems published in the collection represent some of the path that I happened to take along the steps of ascent in the direction of my personality. They were written more than ten years ago, at the very beginning of my thirties, when I was experiencing an existential crisis. Trying on different roles, expressing heterogeneous flows through myself, in the end, I found myself. Perhaps someone will find something close in them - some emotions, some feelings not expressed directly by themselves, but tormented by them. And, having managed to overcome their attraction, they will go further along the path of self-knowledge. The facets of our human nature are so great that sometimes one of them attracts us and we, driven by the next role, forget about our integrity. And until we fully express this hypostasis, we do not play, putting everything on the line, we cannot move forward. If these poems help anyone overcome such stagnation, I will be glad.