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the inevitable balance *of dying

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always we

are* held in

a* delicate* balance

between life

and dying

that we cannot escape

it is easy

to lose but

we suffer together

death is easy*

it is black*

quick*, forever final

harsh is this

perception

of our reality

but death is

natural

and a piece of our lives

good does come*

hard events

shape* lives* into magic

wondrous

beautiful

timelines of impact, for

we must see

the dark to

appreciate the light

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Kelpies
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Kelpies wrote a review · Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:26 am

Hello Hunger4Words!

First of all, nice username! And welcome to Young Writers Society! I'm here if you have questions, I won't mind if you ask me a lot of them either. Second, nice poem! I also liked the message, I tried to convey that same message in one of my works and didn't succeed very well. Now I do have some critique:

For starters, you may want to split it up a little less. It makes it appear choppy, though if you combine some of the lines, it makes it a whole lot smoother.

Pretty much it for me, keep on writing! Look forward to seeing more from you!

~Kelpies.

Thank you! I did try formatting it but when I posted it, the poem lost it's the spaces I put in it... If you know what I did or how to fix it, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could help me

-H4W

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Soulfulwriter
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LOVED IT. No bad tips here. AS everyone knows dying is a part of the life we live in. We can’t escape it. We can’t make a deal with it. We can’t do anything but have it happen. Life is something that we live and have to live to the fullest every day. And ‘death is easy’ easy for the person who is dead or dying but it’s hard for the ones that cared about that person.

Thanks! Dying is one of the harder parts of living, but even as horrible as it is, death helps to show us that we need to appreciate the small amount of time we have left. I agree; because death is natural, it happens easily and "without a hitch," but the pain that is left behind is incredibly hard to make sense of and come to terms with. I really appreciate your review; thank you :)

-H4W



It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind