Facing the Sun - Volume II is an intimate journey through the light and shadow of existence. Each poem rises like a new dawn, where the author's voice awakens among memories, losses, hopes, and rebirth. Within these pages, life pulses like a sea that never stops-sometimes calm, sometimes stormy, but always faithful to its urge to move forward. Poetry becomes refuge, memory, and embrace for those who seek to find themselves amid uncertainty. Here, pain is not hidden-it transforms; absence is named so it won't be forgotten; love renews itself in its purest form; and hope returns again and again, like a sun that refuses to fade. Each verse carries the trace of what has been lived, yet also the promise of what may still bloom. The poems travel through the infinite, the intimate, and the universal- the child who never dies, the mother who sustains everything, the woman who converses with her shadow and discovers that within her fragility resides her strength. With an honest and deeply human voice, Lidia Rosa Mendoza invites us to read not only with our eyes, but with our hearts. This second volume confirms that poetry remains a bridge between the soul and the world, between what is lived and what is dreamed, between what hurts and what is loved. A book for those who believe that, even amid silence, words can bring forth light-and for those who know that facing life facing the sun is always an act of courage.