Poetry. Reflection. Perspective.
Crossing the Bridge
A Journey Through Shadow into Light
The bridge is still before us in all its glory.”
Crossing the Bridge is a deeply personal collection of poetry, journal entries, and reflections written through different stages of Isaiah Jones’ life. The work captures thoughts and experiences surrounding love, depression, loss, fear, faith, identity, growth, and learning to accept yourself through all of it.
These are not poems written from the other side looking back. Many were written while Isaiah was still living through the questions, uncertainty, and emotions found on the page. Together, they tell the story of a person trying to understand himself while making his way through life.
“You say I never talk, but I write and I listen.”
Poetry for the Parts of Life We Do Not Always Say Out Loud
Crossing the Bridge does not tell readers how they should feel or give them a set of answers to follow. Isaiah’s writing is personal, but the questions behind it are familiar.
What happens when happiness disappears? What do we do with anger that remains? How does loss change us? Where does faith fit when we do not understand what is happening? How do we learn to see ourselves differently?
Across the book, those questions change as Isaiah changes.
“Yesterday has dried. Tomorrow is so sweet.”
There are moments of darkness in Crossing the Bridge, but there are also moments of humor, love, faith, freedom, and hope. The writing allows those experiences to exist beside one another because that is often how life actually feels.
A Journey That Belongs to the Reader, Too
Isaiah shares his own writing, but Crossing the Bridge ultimately leaves the reader with something personal to consider.
In every story there is a hero. In this story, the hero is you.
You may recognize yourself in a poem, a question, a journal entry, or a single line. What you take from it will depend on where you are in your own crossing.