Unlearned

by nadair

Published December 30, 2014

E - Everyone

In Poetry

There comes a moment

Where a vital choice

is made:

.

Learning to Love:                                                                                              

     Loving                                                                                                                

Learning to Befriend:                                                                                         :

     Befriending                                                                                                        

Learning to Encourage:                                                                                     

     Encouraging                                                                                                        

Learning to Help:                                                                                               

     Helping                                                                                                                 

Learning to Love:

     Loving

.

OR

.

Learning to Hate:

     Hating         

Learning to Bully:

     Bullying

Learning to Destroy:

     Destroying

Learning to Hurt:

     Hurting

Learning to Hate:

     Hating

.                                                                                    .

It's a sharp dichotomy,

A difficult choice,

But it cannot be

Unlearned.

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Nightshade27
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Nightshade27 wrote a review Review · Dec 30, 2014

Wow look at that formatting! The poem in itself is great; the layout is just the icing on the cake for me. It holds a simplistic beauty of the brutal truth mankind holds dear. It shows both the beauty and kindness we are capable of as well as the dark destructive side to humans we simply chose not to see. The formatting must have really been difficult but I applaud the effort. Overall I think it was truly beautiful.

nadair replied · Dec 30, 2014

Thank you so much! I actually sat at my laptop for a half hour with my cursor over the submit button because I feel this is one of my worst. But the formatting did take forever. I think I sat here close to an hour tweaking it.

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idika Review
idika wrote a review Review · Dec 30, 2014

I really really like the design, first off. It must have taken you quite a while to make this as perfectly shaped as it is. It reminds me of a leaf, floating down across my screen! HA!

"Dichotomy" was a word I had never seen nor heard ever, so I had to look it up. Thanks for helping me learn something new.

Your language choice was very artistic. I have to praise you for that! It had a simple concept that was straight to the point and hit hard, and I appreciated the work overall. I hope you submit much more in the future.

nadair replied · Dec 30, 2014

It took me forever to play around with the shape of this on the editor. It's so much easier to shape on Microsoft word than it is here :')



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