Your gift from the sky

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My eyes well up,
I gasp and I choke.
I can't even remember the last time we spoke.

It's what you wanted,
peaceful, I know,
I still wish it wasn't your time to go.

You always said 'you live to die',
so anything inbetween is a
gift from the sky.

I hope your gift was better than any
and I hope your in the sky
sending us many.
If beauty is an ecstacy and anger keeps you pure,
a hungry man is never free a rich man never cured!




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Remember: don't sacrifice rhythm for rhyme. In this case, you've brutally murdered it. Example - first stanza. You try so hard to make it rhyme that the third line is too long and out of place. However, if you want a short-short-long pattern, you should have carried it on. Instead, your stanzas are inconsistent and this just looks bad. I don't really think you were thinking about effect here, either. The "any/many" rhyme in the last stanza is crude, and the last line is awkward. Its forced. I think a serious reconsideration of the structure of this poem is required to salvage it.
Nate wrote:And if YWS ever does become a company, Jack will be the President of European Operations. In fact, I'm just going to call him that anyways.



We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer