 PainKiller 2004-01-05 . chapter 1This may be one of your most powerful poems. I think your use of free-verse facilitates the feelings, giving you creative freedom to express yourself clearly. So much intensity; so much pain; it's all said and unsaid so plainly that it envelops you in one massive outpouring of feeling.
'It is I, royalty/Yet it is still I who am the furthest from a judge's mercy'
This, and the last two lines were the best. As usual, your ending was brilliant. Marvelous; simply marvelous. |