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    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
    • I Miss You God
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • The Essence of Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures
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I Had to Kill It

POEMS ABOUT FEAR > I Had to Kill IT
​
I HAD TO KILL IT 
 
 
Today I chose to
kill my fear.
And why? 
Well, let me see.
It was an act
of self-defense,
as IT was
killing me!



LILIANA KOHANN
©2001 Artpeace Publishing
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    • Wysyłam Troski Aniołom
    • Z Sercem Pełnym Wdzięczności
  • ABUSE: Healing from
    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
    • I Miss You God
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • The Essence of Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures

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