As the moon grows from a sliver to a full moon, then waning til the dark night sky is empty again, so ‎does love. Love Me Ugly expresses these different phases and layers of love, not only singing songs ‎of happiness and contentment, but bringing light to the rawness it holds.‎

The heart is not always telling of the blooming romance but also the destruction, the chaos, the ‎thrill, the loneliness, the ugliness, all of it. Caitlin Davis-Ruiz presents her collection of poems ‎conveying the message of empowerment around not so pretty thoughts and feelings, encouraging ‎the reader to not be ashamed of all of who they are, and that the most important relationship of all, ‎is the one you have with yourself.‎