Book details

  • Genre:poetry
  • Sub-genre:Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
  • Language:English
  • Pages:84
  • eBook ISBN:9798317834685
  • Paperback ISBN:9798218915100

The Seventh Dimension Is Love

Poems on Awakening, Grief, and the Healing That Found Me

By Michael Esquer

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Overview

The Seventh Dimension Is Love is a poetry collection born from spiritual awakening through love and loss. These poems trace the collapse of ego and the emergence of emotional truth in the aftermath of a relationship that transformed the author's understanding of death, intimacy, and selfhood. Moving through themes of grief, political disillusionment, generational trauma, mirroring, resilience, and radical love, this book offers language for inner change. It is not a guide to healing, but a record of what happens when love becomes the teacher and the soul finally stops resisting its own becoming.
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Description

The Seventh Dimension Is Love is a collection of lyric free-verse poems and meditations written in the aftermath of loss and in the slow emergence of a new interior life. It is not a book about heartbreak alone, nor about healing as a performance or a solution. It is a record of what happens when a person is stripped of the stories that once held them upright, and must learn to stand again inside something quieter, more honest, and more alive. These poems move through grief, memory, intimacy, fatherhood, desire, and spiritual awakening with a voice that is both tender and unflinching. They do not rush toward closure or redemption. They stay with what is present — the ache, the beauty, the confusion, the moments of sudden clarity — and allow meaning to arise naturally from attention rather than from explanation. At the center of the book is love, not as an emotion or a possession, but as a dimension of perception. Love is presented as a way of seeing, a way of listening, a way of inhabiting the world that changes what becomes visible. In this sense, love is not something the speaker finds at the end of the journey; it is something that slowly teaches the speaker how to be inside the journey at all. The poems are autobiographical in origin but universal in resonance. They speak to anyone who has loved deeply, lost profoundly, and found themselves altered by the experience. They are for those who have felt the world withdraw its permission to make sense, and for those who have felt it return in smaller, quieter forms: in breath, in memory, in the presence of children, in the way light moves across a room. Written in a musical free-verse style, The Seventh Dimension Is Love invites the reader into a contemplative space rather than a narrative one. It does not offer answers. It offers companionship. It offers language for what is often lived without language. It offers a place to pause, to feel, and to remember that even in the midst of loss, something luminous remains — not as a promise, but as a presence.
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About The Author

Michael Esquer is a writer and poet whose work explores love, grief, memory, and the quiet transformations that follow loss. His writing grows out of lived experience rather than literary ambition, and his voice is shaped less by formal tradition than by attention — to what is felt, what is remembered, and what remains when familiar identities fall away. The Seventh Dimension Is Love is Michael's first full-length poetry collection and serves as both a personal record and an offering to readers who have known deep attachment and profound change. The poems move through grief, intimacy, fatherhood, and spiritual awakening with a voice that is spare, direct, and emotionally precise. Rather than offering answers or resolutions, the work stays with experience as it unfolds, allowing meaning to arise from presence rather than explanation. Michael is a father of five, and much of his writing is informed by the responsibility and tenderness of parenthood, as well as by the way loss rearranges one's sense of time, purpose, and self. His poems are grounded in ordinary moments where life quietly reveals itself: a breath after grief, a memory surfacing without warning, the way light enters a room, the way love continues in altered form. He is influenced by writers such as James Baldwin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Khalil Gibran, and his work blends lyricism with moral clarity and spiritual curiosity. His poems are not performative or ornamental; they are attentive, inward, and intimate, written as much for listening as for reading. He writes with the belief that language can hold what is often lived without language, and that poetry can be a place of companionship rather than instruction. Michael lives and writes in Texas, where he continues to develop work that bridges poetry, memoir, and meditation. His writing is dedicated to those he has loved and lost, to his children, and to anyone learning how to stand again inside a world that has changed. His work invites readers not toward certainty, but toward presence — and toward the quiet recognition that love, in all its forms, remains the deepest dimension we inhabit.
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