literature

Pain

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When you're up late at night thinking the world is so cold,
and how you stuck all alone with no one to hold.
Running in your mind are those words you never thought you'd hear.
The pain that follows behind feels like it was your biggest fear.

You didn't know how to respond and didn't know how to react.
When the pain hit so hard like a heart attack.
It made you run and hide trying to escape the world
Left there all alone while your mind raced and swirled.

Searching all around for a way to stop the pain,
When in reality all I wanted was to be hung by a chain.
Does death seem so bad as you lay there on the floor.
What else comes to mind when you don't want to feel anymore.
© 2016 - 2024 ZaFei
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inkstaineddove's avatar
Hi there! I enjoyed this piece a lot. You definitely get a sense of the hopelessness and despair the subject of the poem is feeling. The only thing I could find that was distracting in the piece were a few grammatical errors. For example the line:
'Does death seem so bad as you lay there on the floor.' 

I was wondering why you decided to forgo a question mark at the end. The way it's phrased sounds like a question. If you want to keep it as a regular sentence, I would change it's structure or do the simple fix to
'Does death seem so bad as you lay there on the floor?'

Another one I noticed was:
'
You didn't know how to respond and didn't know how to react.
When the pain hit so hard like a heart attack.'

I was again wondering why you decided to make the second line a sentence. When read by itself, it doesn't make sense. Only put together with the first does it give any context. I would either change those two lines to make it so they can stand alone or change it to
'
You didn't know how to respond and didn't know how to react,
when the pain hit so hard like a heart attack.'

All-in-all, I thought this was a really good poem. The emotion was conveyed with clarity. The feelings of the subject were, unfortunately, ones familiar to me. Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see how you continue to grow as a writer.