Compatriots of Desire

POETRY

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Compatriots of Desire follows one man’s unflinching journey through debt, disillusionment, addiction, and the quiet collapse of a life lived under capitalism’s relentless glare. Once an intelligent family man commuting across London’s bridges to the Financial Quarter, he becomes worn down by pressure, expectation, and the slow erosion of his mental health.

When the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brings the country to a standstill, he finds an unexpected lifeline – yet every rescue comes with consequences. As he abandons work, technology, and the noise of society, he begins to question everything he once believed about success, money, and meaning.

The bridges he crosses – both real and metaphorical – mark the turning points of a life in search of something better. But where does the journey lead? Toward contentment, or further into the unknown?

Told in lyrical prose woven with poetry, Compatriots of Desire is a continuous, immersive story of collapse, clarity, and the fragile hope of starting again.

The Forever Child is the fourth book written by the author, further to the death of both parents in the last four years. As with all his works, those deaths have taken their toll on his well-being.
The author poetically looks back through his life and reflects on his childhood and how different adulthood has been, and in both sees how his development was morphed by others, not necessarily for the better. He always goes back to nature to heal his mind from the traumas of life and repeatedly keeps hold of his beautiful dreams.
The book is to be read from first page to the end, even though each piece is individual as itself.