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Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Love is handing someone a loaded gun,
aiming it at your heart,
and praying like hell that they never pull the trigger.
I guess that's why when people tell me,
"You dodged a bullet;"
I want to instinctually say,
"no."
Because no,
I didn't.
I felt every single one rip through my flesh and echo throughout the chambers of my chest,
As you emptied that clip
Over
and over
and over
again.
I didn't dodge a bullet.
I didn't dodge anything.
You shot me once, and I let you play target practice with my body as if I were the dummy and you were the instructor.
Every shot carefully placed to cause the most damage.
A kill shot every time.
Love shouldn't have to come with a bullet proof vest.
Love shouldn't come with back up clips and target practices.
Love shouldn't even come with a gun.
I hope the next man that I give my heart to,
has never even seen one
before.

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago

This is definitely emotional. It's funny coming from a username that screams "eleven-year-old", though. But the metaphor is sound, and I like the repetition in "I didn't dodge a bullet/I didn't dodge anything". I'd also shorten the two really long lines, but I can understand the poetry of letting them breathe.

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Thank you for your response! My poems are usually more of a spoken word type of style/rhythm, so the struggle with the longer lines was definitely there as to either shorten them, or to keep them as I would personally speak them aloud.

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Who hurt you

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Which time? haha

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Each

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Guns are good and fun. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a filthy commie

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago

The first two-thirds of it was great.

Also, why is there a semicolon in Line 5?

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
I'd love to hear your perspective of the last third of it!

There is a semicolon in Line 5 because the sentence could have ended there, but it continues on.

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
A comma works better there. That's typically what goes after dialogue

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Not always, but thanks!

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Not always a comma, but never a semicolon.

Semicolons are used to join to independent clauses in lieu of a comma and coordinating conjunction when both phrases are contributing to the same idea with equal weight.

For example: I really fucked up this time; I should kill myself.

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
A total nerd once compared it to the fulcrum of a teeter totter

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
I am aware of what the word "typically" means.

Poem- "Love"

29 days ago
Kill them Fresh. Do it

Poem- "Love"

28 days ago

Comparing the antagonist to an authority figure like a shooting instructor two-thirds of the way into the poem too abruptly introduces a perspective shift on the relationship between the antagonist and protagonist.

The word shot is repeated too many times in a brief amount of text without a rhetorical purpose.

The word every is used in two consecutive sentences without a rhetorical purpose.

The naïveté of wishing for painless love is a dramatic shift from the more mature tone of the first two-thirds of the poem.