03-22-2017, 05:29 AM
This does read better to me. A few new comments below.
Sometimes I find a title change can focus the work. I would suggest considering "Everything I Never Did" from S2 L3.
Todd
Sometimes I find a title change can focus the work. I would suggest considering "Everything I Never Did" from S2 L3.
(03-16-2017, 10:27 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: Edit 2Best,
I've seen so many things.
I see her face and need to scream.--Seeing her face seems less important than that she needs to scream is there anyway you could combine these ideas more seemlessly.
These vicious dreams will never end ---vicious dreams is a bit too telling to me.
I want to say I loved her.
I've seen without relief.
Everyday, I trace her memory--typo you want Every day
in melodies she'll never sing
because I couldn't save her.--lines like this that make conclusions steal tension. I'd be tempted to cut it.
I heard a little bird crying
so loud it filled the whole Earth.
When it stopped I tossed and turned.
It seemed absurd that no one else had stirred.
Maybe now, if I sing
she can forgive me
for everything I never did.
Maybe I'll finally
get a full night's sleep.
Maybe I'm breaking or waiting
to see if it's working, if she hears.
Maybe you wouldn't have said
anything either, though, but know:
being ignored when you need someone
might as well kill you, it's vile,
and feels worse than pitiful.
If she had said something
it wouldn't have ripped us apart.
We can't get back together,
and there will always be a hole
in my heart.--Hole in my heart is a bit predictable maybe a replacement.
Todd
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
