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If i can kiss away your tears

If i can hug away your outbursts

If i can kill life’s insecurities

If i can share the pain you feel

If i can have my life to carry you through

If I can step on the ants that constantly bite you

If i can turn your frown upside down

If i can make you feel i hold this true

If i can be the person to walk with you

If i can let you know i love you

If i can bring you to the happiest place on earth

If i can give you the strength to hold on

If i can inspire you to be the best you can be

If i can make you realize how brilliant of a person you are

If i can keep on reminding you how much God loves you

If i can try a little bit more to understand you

If i can listen to your every trucked up twaddles

If i can sing to you a lullaby

If i can lull you to happiness

If i can get you to sigh a good relief

If i can believe that we’d heal

If i can show you how much ill continue to care

If i can stop blabbering now…

I WOULD.
In heaven there is only you, on earth you are all i want. -Psalms 73:25




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Hey Echolair! Nice to meet you. =]

To begin with, I liked the character development that came out of here (religion, desire, sadness etc) and the emotions were certainly there. However, I have a few thoughts to go by.

Grammar

The repetition really annoys me in this poem. Firstly, it should be "could" and not "can", because "could" is conditional, whereas "can" suggests that you might be able to you just don't know. "Could" implies that you can't and you know it. However, you can choose either, just make the last line agree with it. If you pick "could" it must be "would" and if you pick "can" you must have "will". Otherwise, it's awkward and the atmosphere is difficult.

Secondly, not every line has to start with a capital letter. As with prose, it's just the first letter of a sentence. Also, you'll want to put a comma after each line, to make sure it's the same sentence and not just a load of unconnected fragments, which is kind of implied. Also, I'm just not getting why the "i" is not capitalised. What's the point? What does it add? Is it just a typo? If so, it doesn't work.

Poem

If i can kiss away your tears

This is a very weak opening line. It's an overused line in a lot of poems, songs and other romantically-failed soliloquys. Even in a poem, you want to grab us in with some mind-blowing imagery and emotions, shimmy us away. Introduce us with a bang, shock us with what you can. This, however, doesn't introduce what could come, because it's so empty.

The overall impression of the poem is that someone wants to help someone else and explain that they can't help, but the thing is, I'm not interested in that. I'd rather not read a load of lines repeating the same thing, but instead learn about the story of why he can't help. That sounds much more interesting. Nothing's revealed, and the mystery is not used for effect. The theme is wanting to help and not much more. As it stands, it just reads like another teenage angst poem and they irritate the hell out of me--I'd recommend writing a bit more about the story than the one dragged-out emotion, yah?

The repetition loses its effect as it progresses, because the power is gone and I'm not expecting anything particularly new to come out, so I just skip out the syllables and that's a waste of space.

If i can stop blabbering now…

By all means, don't acknowledge that in the poem! It just adds another line and almost confirms the reader's thoughts. It seems to me as if you were looking for a quickfix, but couldn't get one, so threw in this line to make it seem like we should love it for just pointing it out. It's not working for me, sorry.

So, yeah. PM me if you have any queries or thoughts, and I'd love to help! Sorry if I've been a little harsh, but I think the idea could go somewhere, so stick with it, like I said.

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Blinky
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Hmm... this poem seemed a little... what is the word?... flat. You start the same way each time (which I know is your main point, but it seems a little boring).

You need to capitalize your I's! I noticed that you didn't do that at all. Also this line;

If i can kill life’s insecurities


If you are using the conjunction "life's" then you are saying "life is"... morphing "life" and "is. You did not use it correctly. The way you are putting it, you are saying "I I can kill life is insecurities..."
See what is wrong with that? Kill the apostrophe in there. It's making you use the incorrect form of a word.

If i can show you how much ill continue to care


This line is a bit confusing... :?

If i can stop blabbering now…

I WOULD.


Ha ha, I can totally relate ;) . Which is a good thing... for you :lol: ! You want your readers to connect with you in poetry!
Nice poem... but I would clean it up a little. Start with your I's... they drove me crazy! :D
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