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I love overdramatic poetry, so this might just be me, but the more you can milk it, the happier I am. You've already done a lot of imagery stuff already, so that's completely awesome and I love it (although, I must admit, the carp thing was a little too much for me, lol. ). Still! Some good stuff in here.
There are a couple of things I would tweak, if I were editing this poem. I wouldn't say "sometimes you want to--" and then with the action and the description of the action. Instead, since poetry is where the unimaginable becomes real, I would make it so that the narrator actually DOES scream into the wind, "Why hast thou forsaken me?" and such. It would make it much more intense and it would connect a little bit better with the reader, since this isn't just the narrator imagining things but it's Truth.
I would stick with one of the images that you had early on and then expand from there. The other stuff seems to wander from your initial thoughts, so it doesn't really connect with each other. And the ending doesn't really follow. It never crosses our minds that somebody died, so when we find out, it's not really a shocker or cringe worthy. It just is, and that's not overly dramatic enough for me.
Anyway, theer you go! Hope that helps.
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