The Place I Hate Poem by Achim Wollscheid

i don't want to go
to the place that i hate
where everyone criticizes,
and riddles mockery
off their tongues
as if they've been taught it
from kindergarten, up
this is the place that i hate
for obvious reasons
and sometimes i want to run from it
other times, i just would like to hide
from it for a little while
until i recover my pride
but it's the places like this
that slowly caved changes in me
this place, it opened up my eyes
i never saw the world so clearly
and i thank this place that
i so deeply hate
for getting me so far, making me so kind,
for removing whatever was making me blind