It helped to spark things again. When I look back at this now it looks sappy and silly, a poem to someone who was really just in the right place at the right time, I think. I use emotions and details from my life in my writing, not whole-cloth events or people. So while the poem is true to an emotion I wanted to feel, it is only tangentially related to the truth of the actual events. So please - don't try to infer too many things about my life or the people around me from my writing.
Characters are composites of people or just absorb a detail or two.
Events have been cannibalized to suit a story, and usually massively rewritten. Not a single one of them. And then it occurs to me that they wouldn't put the warning up if it hadn't happened sometime. This is a Burning Void web page.