Pain is the new peace: Poems from the book Life Does Get Better

It all started when I turned 40 when I decided that my past needed to stay in my past. I put pen to paper and started to write poems after a friend had told me "write down your feelings in a poem". I had never written poems in my life, but that is just what I did and from that day on, in fact, I could not stop. I would get a thought in my head, along would come to the feelings, and the words would just flow. Some of the poems are depressing because sometimes that was how I was feeling at th...