the words i'll never say

Alana Kirby's poetry took TikTok by storm, reaching millions with her words of comfort and light under the pen name "Alaska Lane". Here she shares some of her most popular works in print alongside never before seen poems. Let her unspoken words carry you on a journey through the darkest nights of the soul and into the hope of the dawn:

at the very root of it all, the truth is that

i didn't know how to accept myself. i was never taught how to.

i always felt painfully misunderstood

like a sta...