I really appreciate the time you took to clearly lay out this narrative and spoke so plainly about an emotional subject. It shows maturity that you can pay attention to a sequence of events where others might dissolve into melodrama.
The problem is that this is a stereotypical and over done story. Plenty have people have explored it already, and if you don't take it deeper or go a new way, it's not going to satisfy your reader, and we're going to just add it to the amalgam of previously-heard versions that we have in our brain.
Take it somewhere new. What hit you the hardest about this narrative? Focus where your energy is. For me, I liked the idea that the baby was somewhere in a clean house, potentially nearby where the mother died. That juxtaposition of clean and dirty, young and older, life and potential versus death and despair works well to suggest a conflict where before it was just a predictable fall into something like a habit. But that's what caught my eye. What caught yours? What made you want to write this poem? What strikes you about this subject? Write more about that. You'll find emotion, specific scenes, and deeper, more vivid philosophy if you explore just a little bit more, yeah?
Hope this was helpful! PM me if you have any questions or comments about my review.
Good luck and above all, keep writing!
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