forgetting you

by aliza grace

i did it
i deleted the pictures
the ones at the beginning of my camera roll
the photos i looked at every night
when you crossed my mind
the funny thing is that was never the hardest thing to do
the hardest thing to do
was realizing that the boy in them who i loved for so long changed

Genres: Poetry, Love

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 4, 2022

About the author

Aliza Grace is part of a new generation of poets who didn’t wait for traditional publishing to be heard.

Instead, she found her audience in the quiet, glowing space of a phone screen. Where a few lines, spoken honestly, can travel farther than entire books once did.

A young TikTok poet, Aliza rose to recognition through short, emotionally charged pieces that speak directly to experiences of love, loss, longing, healing, and becoming.

Born in the early 2000s, Aliza grew up in a world where expression was constant but not always meaningful. Poetry became her way of slowing things down. What began as a hobby gradually transformed into something she was willing to share. Her early work carried a rawness that resonated immediately: unpolished, direct, and unafraid of emotional exposure.

Her breakthrough came when one of her poems began circulating widely on TikTok. Viewers connected not because of elaborate language, but because of recognition. Her words felt like something they had thought, but never quite articulated. Lines about learning to live with absence, about life after loss, and about rebuilding oneself quietly became widely quoted and shared.

Aliza’s style is defined by restraint. She avoids overly complex metaphors, choosing instead clarity and emotional precision. Her poems often read like conversations with the oneself; intimate, reflective, and unfinished in a way that invites the reader to step in.

As her audience grew, so did her role. She became not just a poet, but a kind of companion to those navigating difficult emotional terrain. Comment sections under her videos often read like collective diaries, with people sharing their own stories of loss and resilience. Aliza has acknowledged this connection, describing her work as “a place where feelings don’t have to be explained to be understood.”

Despite her viral success, she has remained relatively private. She rarely centers her personal life, allowing the work itself to carry the weight of her identity. This intentional distance has only deepened the universality of her voice. Her poems feel personal, but never exclusive.

In many ways, Aliza Grace represents a shift in how poetry lives in the modern world. No longer confined to pages or academic spaces, it moves quickly, intimately, and democratically. Her work exists in fleeting videos, saved drafts, and shared screenshots; Ephemeral in form, but lasting in impact.

She continues to write, not with the urgency of virality, but with the quiet persistence that defined her beginnings. For Aliza, poetry is not performance. It is a way of staying present with what cannot be easily resolved.

And for millions who have come across her words at just the right moment, that has been enough.

Reviews

[taylor c milnes]

i didn’t want to leave a review on this because i didn’t want to be a hater, but i recently found out she blatantly plagiarized all/most of her poems from other poets and has the audacity to make them WORSE! she copies them almost word for word, but changes just a few minor things and re-formats the line spacing and calls it a day. terrible. didn’t like these poems even when i thought they were original, but now i’m just mad i ever read this!

[hanzhi]

what even was that…

[Kelsey Clayton]

This needed Grammarly.

[Jas]

THIS SHIT IS ASS

[Riku]

releasing tiktok "poetry" like this should be punishable by death idk

[Nichole]

it’s the grammar for me

The grammar in this made it unbearable. Misspellings. Word choice. Just. No. The story behind it I understand. But did anyone proof read?

[lulu]

r/twosentencehorror

[Andrea Lawler]

I try not to leave bad reviews, but this “writer” is an absolute hack who plagiarizes ALL of her “work.” She quite literally copy and pastes other writers’ work and self publishes as her own. DO NOT BUY OR SUPPORT THIS GROSS PERSON’S PRODUCTS!

[Cris]

i don’t even remember why i even bought this book, but it’s literally so bad (or as she’d say its). the grammar is the worst and unreadable. the whole thing just doesn’t make sense

aliza what the hell

[Fio Samayoa]

she plagiarizes her “work” and calls herself a poet. do yourself a favor and never read or buy this book

[uniquareads]

The grammar was all over the place and I can’t believe this got published with how badly it was written.

It was written like a 10 year old who lived like a 20 year old so I can really see the plagiarism in that aspect.

Of all the poetry I’ve read (and I read a lot of indie and traditionally published poetry) this is in the top 5 of the worst!

[melody gonzalez]

A tree died for this.

[a court of_randomchaos]

I feel bad rating this a 1 star but I am not the audience for this poetry. It reminded me of little things I would just doodle down on a page in junior high. The grammar distracted me so much.

[Miami]

Not very good. I would not consider this real poetry or prose. More like twitter posts or lessons learned.

[Haylee ૮꒰˵• ᵜ •˵꒱ა]

plagiarism + numerous grammar mistakes
OH BROTHERRRR THIS AUTHOR & BOOK STINKS. i wish i knew about the plagiarism before i bought the physical copy. another comment, how are you going to steal from other writers and still make a bunch of grammatical errors? make it make sense.

[Merziya]

this book sucks

[April Qualls]

This took me 10 minutes to read, if that. Also another long run-on sentence, this time only lasting 35 pages and having too many grammatical errors.

[Jessica Beck]

Would rate 0 stars if I could

[megan ೀ⋆｡˚]

let me say i’m the BIGGEST HATER ❤️❤️❤️

[lils]

i wish i could do zero stars, what a joke. disgrace to even think of calling this poetry

[Aliza]

i hate sharing the same name as her

[Niv]

i crode
how does one plagiarise
and still manage
to make it bad
shame

[Kl]

Writer was like:
once I found
the enter key
I discovered
poetry.

Mind you a tree died for this.

[Connie]

Plagiarism and poor grammar is just not it

[Marie Hague]

This young woman needs an editor and an original thought.

[A Hopeless Romantic's Booklandia]

I found this collection in KU and I loved it so much, I read the only other collection Aliza Grace had in KU and for some reason after I had finished that one, I went to look at the reviews. The two negative reviews talked about how Ms. Grace had plagiarized and stole poems from other artists. I googled “Aliza Grace plagiarism” and several TikToks came up with poems from different writers that showed up in Ms. Grace’s poetry collections. I’m not going to rate these two books because while I really loved the poems for the most part, I don’t feel right rating them given her history.

~ Sonja

[Floor Kaandorp]

I would give u a 0, but I can't, so I give you a 1
~Abby Lee Miller

[nighttime reader]

Idc I’m rating this a zero. I deserve reparations for reading this shit.

[Chris]

As far as I can tell from searching not only news on the internet but the very poems in here themselves, many of this author's works are plagiarized.
Grow up and stop stealing!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tiktoks...

[Emma]

Some good poems but a lot of grammar mistakes and a few that didn’t seem to fit the theme or flow of the book as a whole. Also the cheating theme wasn’t really something I relate to at the moment. So 3 stars seems fair.