I friken love this...amazing keep it up

It's me, Shademan. :3 Well, I'm really impressed here, Tosha. You've gotten way better than when I first started reading your works two years or so ago. The quality of the rhyme-scheme and the power of the words is so real. You have to read it with meticulous detail, or you are immediately lost for the intense value present in nearly every word of it. This is coming after I read Calendars through this, so it's kind of a compound review.

And as I could easily see, there's a lot of heartache here in these lines. But it's put it amazing use. The negative energy being transformed is a spiritual practice, perhaps the most spiritual of all. Poets give to others by having no shame in showing their vulnerabilities. You have that gift. Be proud of that.

I have no complaints, unless "too good" counts, because there is a lot of complexity in how the words are written. I think maybe if you toned down the verse complexity now and then, to simply power in the theme in less abstract terms, you'd get even more praise from those who don't have the patience like I do for digging into this juicy work.

Sayonara,

T. Erebusan