most of this collection was crafted during the long, languid days of summer vacation, where the heat of the sun left me with endless hours to think, to wonder, and to revisit the thoughts I had once pushed aside. it was a time of introspection, where the stillness of the season let me dig deeper into those fleeting moments, the ones that once seemed insignificant. as i wandered through those summer days, these poems began to take shape, capturing the essence of the things i had ignored, yet couldn’t escape. "the time to ignore" became a reflection of that wandering, a journey through the overlooked and the unspoken. it was released august 10, 2024.