Trials and Tribulations is presented as a congeries of poems describing the various bridges the writer has had to cross, some of which he had to burn after crossing the same. It is not all cynical. Some are reassuring; some proclaim that despite any ongoing adversity, there is always time for hope and love.

C.S. Lewis described love as four types:

Storgr-the empathy form,
Phillia- the friend bond,
Eros- the erotic bond,
Agape- the unconditional love.

The writer tries to amalgamate Lewis's attempt in finding and/or categorizing the definition of...