I'm not a good poet, but I do write on occasion, since it's one of my outlets and a method of getting things off my chest. Specifically, poetry is (for me) a way of clearing out darker, more unpleasant thoughts. So basically, what I'm saying is that there will be very few, if any, even mildly cheerful poems here. Subject matter tends to follow whatever I'm ticked off at or upset about in the moment, which could run the gamut of topics. 

Just thought a heads-up would be appropriate here.

I am a bit nervous about posting this, but I'm forcing myself to do it anyway because I find it bizarre that I'm okay with posting bits of my novel but not poems... they're both deeply personal, just the former is more... I guess oblique in the way that it connects to important themes in my life.

I'm not going to bother with rhyme because it feels forced, like I'm finding a word to fit that pattern rather than my thoughts, so... nah.

Anyway. Uh, poems.