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Spiffs C.O. asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

New Poem, what do you think?

Give and Take

I won’t compromise

My integrity

Listen to your

Empty words and

Voided dreams

I won’t change myself

To suit your desires

Or be drawn into the

Insecurity quagmire

And of all your lies

I’m just tired

I will no longer

Feed that fire

And I may not be

What you want to see

But I found that I’m happy

To simply be me.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I like these kind of poems as I think they have the potential to be really passionate, something that your poem unfortunately isn't, I can see that there is a strong message in there but it needs to be fortified by passion and also it needs to be convincing, it sounds kind of half hearted. I like your poem, it's just a bit ordinary. You need to tell how you feel, and maybe use more metaphors. I love the line "feed that fire", I think you've used it very well.

    Source(s): Being honest.
  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I like it. it's really hard for me to simply read it as a poem and not imagine music beats, because they sound they would make good song lyrics. =P But yeah, it's great, the best I've read in a while.

  • 1 decade ago

    Anti-conformity is always good to hear. This is really well written, good job.

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