What begins in innocence does not always end in heartbreak. Sometimes, it leads us back to ourselves.

Reverie is a collection of poems tracing the quiet evolution of a heart—from the wonder of first love to the weight of devotion, from the ruins of loss to the courage of beginning again.

Across ten chapters, Atharva explores the many lives a heart learns to live: the love we offer, the people we lose, the memories we carry, and the versions of ourselves we must leave behind to become who we are meant to be.

These pages hold the tenderness of parents who love without announcing it, the ache of loving someone who may never choose us, the loneliness of growing up, and the unexpected grace of discovering that healing does not require forgetting.

Because not every goodbye is an ending. Not every wound leaves us broken. And sometimes, the home we spend our lives searching for is not a place or a person, but the quiet peace of finally becoming ourselves.

Written across different seasons of growing up, Reverie is more than a collection about love and loss. It is a memoir of the heart—a reminder that every version of us, even the ones we can no longer recognize, deserves to be remembered.

For everyone who has loved, lost, changed, and found their way home.