Should Have Known Better

I know it was for the best

But I'm torn up inside

What have I done?

Wasn't supposed to end like this

I just wanted some effort

To not feel so alone in this

I gave up too soon

When I should have known you were fighting

Reviews

[Kyle]

Poetry wrought from sadness is something many people write as a form of coping. It often times, as in the case of this poem, offers a look inside the thoughts of the poet.

In this poem, you can feel the crushing pressure the speaker is feeling from being torn after a falling out with another, perhaps a breakup? The thoughts flow rationally, but in a jumbled way. These jumbled thoughts are conveyed to the reader through the poet's use of free verse. Since there is no syllable-scheme, and each line is of varying length, the reader is taken along on the broken journey the speaker is having in a way similar to the speaker's internal thoughts. The reader has to halt and pickup again because the flow is broken and rushed throughout the poem, which, as said earlier, mirrors the internal thoughts and fears of the saddened speaker. It was a great choice on the poet to use free verse over a more structured form, especially one with rhyming, which I believe would take away from the tone and thoughts that the poem conveys. Reading this poem, I feel sad and broken as the speaker does. A nicely done poem Kat!

[Kat]

Thank you for this well written review. It means a lot that you read it and reviewed it.