Look. I know it's strange to come back after all this time with something so...unusual. However, this has to be one of my most powerful poems, and I wanted to post it. I want it to see the light of day!! Backstory alert. I wrote this one shortly after someone I knew died. I make it my mission in life to separate myself from people who cause me any sort of sadness or grief. There are not many people that bring me comfort or happiness, though, which is something I struggle a lot with, however that is a separate issue, and I mention it because what I'm saying can be construed differently than how I intend. The person that died was so awful, he was someone that struggled with alcoholism and acted inappropriate to me when I was a young girl. My struggle was the fear. I feared him, I feared walking past his house, which was a problem because I needed to walk by his house to come and go through my home village. When he died, I realised I had been holding my breath for a long time, an...