Adeola Juwon Gbalajobi’s Ellipsis is an ambitious and emotionally charged debut that explores the perpetual cycles of love, loss, desire, and faith. Divided into three distinct parts, the collection moves fluidly between prose and verse, using form as a mirror of feeling. At its core, Ellipsis is concerned with the ongoingness of life itself—the idea suggested by its title: a pause rather than an end, a continuation rather than a conclusion. The poems ask whether, in the face of heartbreak, longing, and contradiction, one chooses to continue. The structure of the first section is particularly striking. The poems move back and forth between emotional extremes, shifting rapidly from the exhilaration of first love to the depths of heartbreak. This oscillation creates a sense of instability that feels deliberate and effective. Rather than presenting love as a linear narrative, Gbalajobi portrays it as cyclical—recurring, inevitable, and universal. The reader is left wondering whether the p