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My Withering Mind
Everything is something else.
Distorted, detached
From my withering mind
In delusions and fantasies.
I frighten myself
With misshapen dreams
And convoluted wishes.
Where is the beauty
In simple simplicity?
Where is the joy
When everything
Is just as it seems?
All have meanings
Hidden beneath the
Skin of masked beauty.
I peel it back,
Let the blood
Of the heart
Run down my hand.
And taste it.
It’s apples and the sun
And newborn babes.
It’s terror and darkness
And minds twisted
Into nothing more
Than a contorted mess.
But I swallow it all.
And continue.
Till it becomes
A part of me.
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Ok...I am definitely favoriting this one!!!!! My only criticism is that the line "Than a contorted mess" sounds odd for some reason, probably because of the word "mess." It does not seem to match the tone of the words around it (twisted, contorted, terror, darkness---mess? One of these things is not like the other...)
I've read some of your feedback for other people and would LOVE it if you critiqued some of my stuff. Nothing's published, it's all in threads in the poetry and fiction forums, but I'd really appreciate it!
This was amazing.
I loved it.
It was very well written,
with a deep meaning, and it was beautiul!:)
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