love the last stanza, very well done!

I understand. I feel like every time I write something, somewhere someone's said the same thing, and I can never achieve originality. However, I love your poetry; and I've discovered that everyone makes everything original by saying it in their own words. I love the last verse in its comparison of knives and pens; that is so true. Your writing is beautiful, original, and you are one of the best writers I've come across on FP. And one of the ones who I wish I could write like. I love your poetry; it's beautiful, painful (and that is good for me), original, and totally honest, which I like. I don't like people who write about whatever just because they can. I like writers who write what they feel, and that is what you do. I love reading your poetry, and I care how you feel (perhaps because we share the same feelings about a lot of things), and I hope you don't feel cliched often.

Beautiful form, with magical qualities about it. The link between writing and cutting, each as a powerful artform that has been done previously, is powerful. But don't worry about cleches. If its in your heart, speak from the heart. Shakespeare has been said to encompass every piece of literature worth reading in his works. In other words, nothing sense has been written that he didn't already write and write better. Yet he borrowed, and we still are reading literature of all types. And vapor of blood or razors to pins, though perhaps done before, are powerful images that are close to the heart. But is you;re realy so worried, think of it this way. Music in pop-culture has nothing new and less thats of quality. But some musicians, even in extremely old genres, have begun experimenting with notes to do things so absurd that it wasnt thought possible. The same notes and the same instruments are doing all new things. As is your heart. I've read everything up here, and its not all the same, trust me. And what is a repeated theme, is still different every time, and that much better because of its uniqueness.

I know what you mean. Everything seems so unoriginal. However, I want to keep writing because it means so much to me. Just keep trying to put it in your own words...not everything seems cliche to others who read it.

wow started out really light and ended so dark. very interesting. i really like it.

i like the rhyme in this. and i've felt that way too. but keep writing! u have talent!