Hm. There are some parts which have real potential, but there are other parts that make me scratch my head and wonder why they’re there at all.
I love the idea of “worn out thoughts in well-worn places.” A lovely image. However, the brick/stick rhyme feels very forced and a little nonsensical, as does the lips/wisp connection. Don’t force your ideas to conform to the rhyme scheme – it ends up making the poem shallow and squeezed. Try free verse, or a different form of rhyming poetry to free up your ideas.
I’m not really sure what the stuff about fate and destiny is doing in the poem – it doesn’t feel like you really follow it up, so maybe you should think about either excising it or making its connection with the rest of the poem clearer.
I love the fourth and fifth stanzas; I think you could really go far if you were not constrained by trying to rhyme every line. You have some really awesome concepts in there that fit together nicely. The ending is also very effective.
Overall, I think you need to tighten up your ideas and perhaps lose the strict rhyme scheme to follow the rhythm better. This piece definitely has potential, though. I hope you keep working on it!
Cheers,
~bubbles
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