Rigel wrote:way to say the same old "I can't believe you left me". .
Yes in a way, but this is in a context about death, not romance just to make it clear. Suppose to a reader it could be viewed as either though, solely from looking at the poem
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Guess who's back?
Haven't been here for a while
Still focus, contemplating, thinking
Further sinking into abyss
Then climbing back on top of this
Is this a circle, a cycle, a test?
Whatever, don't know what's best
Action, reaction, reason
Revolt, death, treason.
Why? Don't know - we'll never know
Keep moving.
Though still four years on, he's the reason
I cry, don't sleep, sometimes don't eat
Every so often creeps back into view
Only for me to temporarily push back, only to rise again.
Still I ponder, write, fight with demons.
Scribble thoughts down, only to be discarded for want of better words I cannot find.
To explain- why?
And as the floor fell through upon us, how would it all end?
Keep going- ask why only in the back of a mind obsessed with books, answers
The boy constantly writing as the only outlet.
Torn apart, brought together.
Through the asking of the quetion- Why?
Still I ponder as I write
How would it all end
As another replaced it though it is still vivid in the back of the mind
In a smile, a thought
Of what was supposed to be
What was not to be
And what should have been in another form before it all collapsed upon us.
Rigel wrote:way to say the same old "I can't believe you left me". .
First off, I want to say that just because you say that something is confusing in the beginning, it doesn't make it any less confusing. Beyond that, it seems like a convoluted, if erratically well-put, way to say the same old "I can't believe you left me". You experiment with a number of different metaphors here, but you never go into any of them in depth. There are some things in here that go beyond the tired emo standard. For example, the part in the first stanza where you talk about "thinking, contemplating." This would be much more interesting if you emphasized that more, and the books and writing.
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