Burning and dusty
Cold and treacherous
Thirsty and Salty
I searched for me in you
There I am;
In the center of void
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I can see the idea. However for the poem to work I would suggest some better linkages in the first two lines.
It is not easy to suggest alternatives but perhaps:-
Burning with fever
Freezing to numbness,
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Maybe it's just me, but I really just see a list of adjectives with no corresponding nouns, followed by a "void." It doesn't create anything very poetic to me.
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what are you trying to say?