Goodbye, Finally...

Goodbye, Finally... is a poetry collection for the quiet survivors — those who've grieved relationships that never offered safety, mourned family myths they were forced to uphold, and found healing not in closure, but in reclamation.

Through raw, lyrical prose and unflinching honesty, R.C. Vale invites readers into the bittersweet freedom of letting go: of guilt, of performance, of obligation. These poems do not demand forgiveness or spectacle. Instead, they offer stillness.

From childhood estrangement and emotional survival to radical self-compassion and the unapologetic choice to walk away whole, this is poetry that understands that goodbye isn't an end — it's a beginning.