Pain the Sculptor: Between Absence and Presence is a collection of poems that explores grief, memory, love, physical suffering, and the enduring bonds that shape a life. Moving between childhood recollections and the realities of the present, Kamila Waleszkiewicz reflects on family, loss, illness, and longing with emotional honesty and lyrical precision. Rooted in personal experience yet reaching beyond autobiography, these poems dwell in the space where the body remembers what the mind cannot forget. Everyday objects, domestic rituals, and fragments of the past become vessels for love, absence, guilt, resilience, and hope. Written over several years, this collection is an intimate meditation on what remains after loss, on the people who continue to live within us, the pain that transforms us, and the quiet persistence of love across time.