One of my favorite things about a poem is you can take a feeling and a thought and follow both, and create a voice with them, a character, and that character is both you and not you. You can take it to feelings and thoughts and images that aren't real, or at least are presently fictional. And you can freely plagiarize from your own lived experiences. You can blend the two seamlessly, or seamfully.

In other words you can start with something you feel - maybe faintly, maybe intensely, maybe something you're reaching to feel out of curiosity - and you can elaborate. There is no need to be normal, socially acceptable, kind, good, accurate, etc. There isn't even a strict need to be interesting or expressive, though these make a poem worthy.

Now, you and I are human and limited, and even in creating with words known to be figurative, we will have fears, and will avoid some things and strive for others. But that's negotiable. That's between you and yourself, or you and the universe. No one can really tell you how to navigate that.