The devil's snare I'd walked into
Not knowing what he'd put me through
Now running from your hateful fears
Trying not to show my tears
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! ! ! ! ! Utterly superb in every way, a definite 10! It was like watching the movie as I saw you running away with tears in your eyes and then years later being confronted in the street by this scary, cruel, but irresistible past love.
Its a lovely piece of love detached.......a painful journey written beautifully! well done Britt.A+ and 10!
Dear Brittany, First, don't be too disheartened about Jeff's comments below; while he makes some good points, I think he fails to understand how a true poetic sensibility develops (your rhyming style reminds me of my early efforts) . As with anything in life the more you do it the better you become. At the moment you've got a scatter-gun approach which tends to dissipate before hitting whatever targets you want to hit; you've got to be more focused and order your ideas more logically but that will come if you do this one thing: Keep Writing! You show lots of promise! dsw