Random ungodly hour rant alert:
I sometimes ask myself why I stopped writing poetry and making it public. It took me going back to reading my old stuff to realise that it's just me being scared of keeping my deepest thoughts out there. It's the fear of vulnerability, the anxiousness of even one person just messaging me with, "Hey, is everything okay?" Because I don't know what the answer is, and I don't want to be seen for what really lies in the depths. It's scary and poetry for me has always been nauseatingly personal. No matter how much ever I cringe at my old stuff, it doesn't rule out that they speak of who I was back then.
So yeah, I deny myself a release because I'm afraid I'll be caught, scared that what's so personal to me will make me vulnerable and weak.