Cradling Destruction
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(05-21-2025, 12:10 AM)depressedmetalhead Wrote:  I've fallen in love    good opening line and I like the line breaks
with a bomb, disguised 
by glittering diamonds.   maybe...'as a glittering diamond.'
Every time I misstep   with each misstep  (the I is implied and it's a lot of words to say the same thing)
it ominously rumbles,   it rumbles
the light slowly fading away.    ominously my light fades  (not a fan of  'ominously')
In blindness, I failed to recognize it   to blindness

now in idiocy, I keep it close.
I need the diamonds to live,   my
but the bomb will surely end me.

My health lays abandoned 
as I cradle this explosive,
desperately trying out of love
to save this bad omen.   love a
Hi DMH,

Good one.  I made some changes mostly to tighten language and just to provide a different view point.  Most of the cuts I suggest seem redundant to me.
Hope this helps,
Bryn
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Messages In This Thread
Cradling Destruction - by depressedmetalhead - 05-21-2025, 12:10 AM
RE: Idk what to call this - by dukealien - 05-21-2025, 06:56 AM
RE: Idk what to call this - by brynmawr1 - 05-21-2025, 10:49 AM
RE: Idk what to call this - by carahmellow - 05-21-2025, 11:34 AM
RE: Idk what to call this - by RiverNotch - 05-22-2025, 12:48 AM



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