To defeat your adversary, study their craft. Learn their art meticulously. To conquer pain, examine it. Unpick its architecture judiciously. A collection of 21 compelling comprehensive poems, this book takes the reader through the mystery of an emotion so familiar to the human race that it intrigues. It probes why humans seem at home with pain and yet, at the same time, resent it. Flipping the coin, this work looks at why the human race also perpetrates and perpetuates pain. A vicious cycle. Through complex, yet accessible, storytelling and retelling, this collection of poems delicately...

A leave of absence is normally taken when one wants to temporarily vacate their current post, but still wants their vacated post, plus benefits and privileges, to be reserved for them because they are not so sure about where they are going. So, just in case they do not like what they find in the alternate world they long to be, they need the reassurance that they will still be welcome back to their present space. Yet, still, they are uncomfortable enough about where they are to yearn to be in that place else, to crave to be that someone else, just to experience the alternate world in an...