Powerful words and thoughts my friend.
"the reason
for my depravity
my bitter mask"
We do wear fake face and learn bitterness. I enjoyed this poem. Honest tone and direct. My favorite kind of poetry. I will return later and read some more. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote
Interesting poem rising different images and ways of interpretation. To me it reads like a poetical introductory to a thriller, there are elements in it which create tension. Moreover your choice of words is rather simple but well done.
Powerful words and thoughts my friend.
"the reason
for my depravity
my bitter mask"
We do wear fake face and learn bitterness. I enjoyed this poem. Honest tone and direct. My favorite kind of poetry. I will return later and read some more. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote
"You don't think I know that you know ... " Those opening lines are so enigmatic that they just draw the reader in. Then, the finale, "it's been with me since the age of five, the first time I died." Wow! The darkness is like a tide that ebbed in the beginning and flowed down to the very end ... the darkest of tears. Unfortunately, I think too many of us know; and we know that you know that we know.
Great line here,"drowning softly in the black, its grown into a monster."
You allow your readers to feel the struggle you battle.
It's dark and eerie.
Great job.
"My trepidation of things past is not a song with a beginning, middle and end. But an endless symphony playing infinite variations on the same theme. One day of sadness fades into another and the .. more..