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2 poems i wrote (looking for critique)


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It Felt Good

 

You lay there

at the bottom

at the bottom of everything

the lowest of the low

You didn't get there by yourself

No

you needed help

thats where i come in

I put you there

i put you in this state

its my doing

I didn't hit you

I didn't make you bleed

I hurt you like no other kind of hurt

deep within your mind

a hurt so deep

it haunts you

a hurt so deep

it stays

you don't forget

i left you

completely

utterly

broken

you can ask for help

but you'll never really get what you need

your anger rips you part inside

you can't let it loose

like a caged animal

it brakes you inside

Your in this state because of me

Because of things i said

Because of things i did

I try to make amends

I try to make it all better

I try to fix you

but i can't

I can't because no matter what

no matter how

the truth remains

it felt good

 

 

 

The Message

 

I was walking

thinking to myself

thinking about lots of things

thinking about almost nothing

i i ended up there

i ended up in that magical place

where everything is so different

so unique

but yet its all the same

where they live

those people

i saw them

i talked to them

they know things

there really quite smart

and so beautiful

like elegance in its true form

they brought me close

they gave me a message

a message i had to deliver

i had to tell people

i had to let people know

but they said i could tell

but i must choose wisely

for who i choose will be

they one and the only

i ran home

i ran so fast

the message burning in my mind

i saw that girl on the street

i felt it

had to tell her

"The decline is burning crimson flames

Love is the sweet cooling water

we live in the decline

we can save us"

she said i was crazy

maybe i was

maybe no one would believe me anyway

Maybe they were wrong

i sat there

and i remained there

my message was given

i wonder what it would do now

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You have good concepts but you need a lot more imagery to keep it from sounding like prose broken into stanzas. Stuff like "the decline is burning crimson flames/love is the sweet cooling water" is good imagery - try to work in more of that type of thing instead of saying things so plainly.

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