This book consists of a collection of poems about love, family, hope, and other facets of everyday life.

The title of this book, ROPES, is referring to each poem as being a piece of rope. All the poems together, meaning all the ropes intertwined together, create one big masterpiece. A rope is being viewed as a metaphor for hope. The hope to love, the hope to stay strong, the hope that everyone is happy and healthy, with family alongside them.

The author, Ashot "Ash" Asaryan, was born in 1986 in Yerevan, Armenia. His parents migrated to the United States in 1987, settling in Los Angeles, California, where he's lived ever since. Growing up as a kid, his interests included books, math, video games, and basketball. Most of all, he enjoyed writing. Even before he learned to write, he remembers scribbling on every sheet of paper he got his hands on, filling up entire notebooks with gibberish. Fast track into young adulthood, he attended University of California – Irvine, majoring in Political Science. He then went on to attend two different graduate schools, earning two Masters, one in Psychology at Pepperdine University, and one in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Alliant University. While attending Alliant, he became employed with the Los Angeles County, eventually turning it into a career, working in the field of Change Management. In 2016, he married the love of his life. In 2020, they were blessed with the biggest miracle, a beautiful baby boy. He read poetry and wrote poems on and off throughout his life, but it wasn't until his wife and son came into his life that the idea for this book came around. An idea that is now a reality.