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Rampant hope
Is it worth the pain
Again
I don't need the drain
I can see the chains
On my brain
When hope strikes again
Hope-miserable vermin
Latent pollutant of my veins
My true evil twin
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| I agree. Hope is miserable vermin. It makes us believe that all will be well "if only" and I drag it around like a ball and chain attached to my ankle. Wonderful read, thank you. |
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Comment by: sudipal - 2007-03-30 12:44
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I like the structure. Short sentences are good; it's like all your expectations fell short. The near-rhymes, too; like not everything is exactly as it should have been.
I like this poem. |
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Another lullaby for Generation X. Sleep tight. Without hope.
Paul :D |
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| excellent - so very thank you :) |
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I like your existentialist lament. I try to live without hope, because hope is an illusion. But, dammit, it always creeps back in when I'm weak, and always leads to despair.
The only thing I would suggest is changing the period after "Hope" in the third stanza. As it is the only punctuation, maybe a hyphen or a colon would make it more dramatic. For some reason, the period makes hope seem like a sympathetic character, though this is just how I took it. A hyphen would just make me realize that hope is truly miserable vermin.
Overall, great sentiment in the poem, and well put. |
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