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Us: Balanced Between Obsession and Revulsion
By MariusBinx
18 February 2008
While not completely freestyle, it's hardly structured.  But might be better liked here.  What I am looking for is enhancement help here with structure, ideas, not insults.  And any help with something with the same idea but not written nearly as badly as my last line.  Something to replace it.

Us: Balanced Between Obsession and Revulsion

You're my everything, my soul, my love, my savior.
You're my revolver and my trigger finger.

I've adorned you with chains of silver and gold.
In worship and praise, just for your time.
I've searched your heart in vain,
Hoping to find the keys to the chains to leash me beside.
You're too good for the real world, and for those who reside.
Too pompous and arrogant, and inhumanly self-dignified.
Not even my ignorance will, ultimately, allow me, to this, to stay blind.

Your world's been buried under so many gifts.
Of fortune, of fame, of vanity.
Those around you are sickened by your name.
Those closest to you do the same.

One day it will change.
Either the gifts or time will bury your name.
Trapped under the weight of your own self esteem.
And those chains that I gave you will bind you to here.
Become rusted, hooked, and daggered, and forever will tear.

I pray that today is, the day that you die.

Reviews

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3351 comments posted) 18th February 2008
I found this one a bit more accessible so I'll risk a comment. I liked the idea of comparing obesession and revulsion [at least I guess that's what you're doing] but I'm not sure the word balanced can be applied to either. They're both unbalanced reactions. 
It made me wonder how often they go hand in hand, which is an interesting train of thought,especially as obsession is an unhealthy, extreme emotion and could slip into revulsion. That's quite well observed. You've expressed it your way and I was with you till 
 
"Not even my ignorance will, ultimately, allow me, to this, to stay blind" 
which I found clumsy and incoherent. 
After that you seemed to stray into the more venal emotions of envy and resentment which didn't do the earlier bit justice 
As for the last line; it seems tacked on for shock value. The poem stands up with out it. Best to lose it. 
Feel free to ignore 
Jane

Written by NathanRoberts (277 comments posted) 19th February 2008
It has an obsessed stalker feel to it. It doesn't seem as if the author really knows the subject (at least not in a two way relationship).  
 
I was a bit confused with the lines 
 
'You're too good for the real world, and for those who reside.  
Too pompous and arrogant, and inhumanly self-dignified.' 
The first could be the thoughts of the subject (but from a second person view) whilst the second seems more like the words of the stalker/author? 'Inhumanly self-dignified' is a bit too strangulated..confusing 
 
The comments of Bottleblond (above) are thoughtful...the bit about balancing two extremes when there's no balanced middle ground. However if the intention was to convey the thoughts of an unbalanced person(e.g. a stalker), a poem written in character, then ignore that. 
 
 

Written by MariusBinx (17 comments posted) 19th February 2008
Thanks to both of you. 
I would like to clarify, that yes, it was my intention to write this from the PoV of the "stalker." Quite a deranged one.

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