A Living Invitation

Here for a While is not just a collection of poems—it’s a conversation with your soul. Written over the span of two decades, these nearly 200 pieces by Assini explore the sacred and the mundane, the tender and the turbulent, the moments that wreck us and the ones that remake us. With a voice both raw and refined, wounded and wise, Assini speaks to the aching parts of us with honesty, humor, and unexpected grace. Some poems feel like spiritual invocations, others like emotional gut-punches. A few read like inside jokes with the Universe. All of them are honest. This is poetry for the misfits and mystics, for those who’ve fallen apart and come back different, for anyone who’s felt lost in the noise and is ready to listen again. Whether you read it front to back or one poem at a time, this book invites you inward—to pause, to feel, and to remember who you really are.