Mistake

Mistake is a haunting poetic meditation on the price of a life consumed by wealth, ambition, ownership, and control.

Through hundreds of interconnected three-line poems, the book follows a recurring human struggle: the choice between what can be possessed and what can only be experienced. Love is exchanged for diamonds. Time is sacrificed for profit. Nature is transformed into property. Childhood becomes productivity. Friendship becomes status. Even sunlight, rain, rivers, forests, and the stars become commodities in a world determined to put a price on everything.

At the center of this journey is a person who repeatedly chooses wealth over presence-money over affection, possessions over time, success over relationships, and control over freedom. What begins as prosperity gradually becomes isolation. The treasures accumulated throughout a lifetime cannot purchase back a single lost moment, restore a silenced voice, revive a damaged landscape, or reclaim a hand that has slipped away.

As the poems progress, the language shifts from observation to confession. The world that was once abundant becomes increasingly barren, while the wealth that promised security becomes a weight the narrator can no longer carry. By the end, there is nothing left to bargain with.

Mistake is not simply a condemnation of money or ambition. It is an invitation to question the moment when achievement stops serving life-and life begins serving achievement.