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I grab for my curse

cling to it

Time and time

again I reach for it

Never quiting reaching

the salvation that which I seek

 

Small gray tendrils

of toxins unraveled

3 oxygenated dollars

going up 3 dimes at a

Time

 

No more excuses

Give in

blinded by my own doing

Rather admit defeat

the/an

Winning over

Time and time

 

Again;

 

At least

as long as fags last,

Or until we (be)come

One

More

Time

Edited by Mardrax
Posted

Edited.

Not quite pleased with it yet, but until now haven't a clue what to do about it.

Comment away by the way, I might need it :P

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You have some interesting things going on here. The end of the first stanza shows an intersting juxtaposition in that it can be read both ways and poet knows it. The poet also wishes us to see some of his frailty.

 

Never quitting reaching

the salvation

 

Never quitting reaching

that which I seek

 

I like the implication that we don't always seek our salvation. It was an intersting way of stating that.

 

I like the idea of "three oxygenated dollars/ going up three dimes at a/ time". I do have a suggestion here and that is you might consider reemphasizing the strong pause after the next to last line with a dash. It would look like this:

 

going up 3 dimes at a—

time

 

This will really drive the word time into the reader's mind as time is reemphasized with a long and timely pause.

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