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Literature Text

you are an art gallery.
let me sculpture your anatomy
and draw your attention
to yourself,

paintings of pain mask your face
[i didn't think i was hostile]
i frame your expression in my mind
in such a way, i cannot
cry with fearful eyes
without smudging your ink

or changing your colours.

beauty is only skin deep to you
and mine was wrapped over
your masterpiece, pierced.

you spoke of masquerades
in the dark,
the blazing moon alight
with passion  
burning brighter than your spark.

the blood, it stains        
[more than acrylics]
but remember that
life ends begins in stains

you know that i can't take the strain
of you leaving me again.
'hostile' i may be,
but i embody empathy.
© 2014 - 2024 AzureNebulae
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The biggest value of this poem lies within its imagery - it is very original and very coherent throughout the whole poem, which is the feature that many poems lack and a feature I value a lot, it shows that the reader has actually put thought into their writing <3 Metaphors you used are both very suggestive and they paint the relationship between the subject and the receiver very well - suggesting that subject pays more attention to the receiver than to themselves and that they are somehow suppressing themselves around the receiver, whilst the receiver seems to be focused more on their own emotional distress. It seems that the receiver is idolised and the nature of this relation really fits the imagery used - in a way it is asymmetrical the same way as relationship between the piece of art and its worshipper would be, with all the attention drawn to only one side of the relation.
It is a free verse poem and it flows well, being pleasant to read. I think that use of the saying 'beauty is only skin deep' along with the rest of the stanza was incredibly clever - combining the phrase about beauty being only shallow worth with the image of the subject wrapping themselves around the receiver seems to underline how they don't think much abut their own worth (being the shallow layer covering the receiver) compared to the receiver (what's inside).
Overall I think it is a well-thought poem and it shows.