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Selfish Reflections
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For years I have witnessed many people destroy their lives as well as their loved ones and the naive ones that try to help...Help those that try to help themselves!
Innocent, helpless newborn babe into this world, you graced a day. Once vibrant, laughing and playing with childlike, mischievous glee. Double dutch, hop scotch hide and seek. Life was untamed no boudaries held your imagination at bay. When did the haze and glaze take your zest for life away? When did the drugs become your lifeline? Up your nose... In your veins... Whatever it takes, to numb your brain! Drink it... Snort it... Smoke it... Shoot it... Hell! You hide so well you can't find yourself, lost and turned out being someone else. Lying and stealing is your claim to fame, Oops! For a "hit" you'd sell your name... No apologies here for your sorry state, You once were young with a choice to make!

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Reviewed by Fr. Kurt Messick

Reviewed on November 14, 2003

good write

Reviewed by Al Swanson (Reader)

Reviewed on November 10, 2003

very good Z, well done, al

Reviewed by Tami Ryan

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

Well done, Zenith!

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

Powerful write!

Reviewed by Marie Wadsworth

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

You tell it like it is, girl! Well done!

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

Extremely powerful write Zenith!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Leland Waldrip

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

Powerful thoughts here, Z.
Best regards,
Leland

Reviewed by George Carroll

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

A sad but true write. So many lives have been shattered by the use and abuse of drugs.

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

Extremely powerful, Zenith.

Reviewed by Tyler Wiseman

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

The first stanza has a strong voice, offering the simple effective imagery of childhood in a intimately palpable rhyme.

Good message, I suggest you remove the comma after drugs in S3.

"You hide so good" should be well. It's more gramatically consistent and offers a straight rhyme for hell and a slant for yourself and else.

Floating through life,
null and void..
Oh! I forgot!
This world Owes you more...

This seems the weakest stanza, being both inconsistent with the latter stanzas scheme and having a mildly abrasive, embittered inflection.

so far as I see, S1 and 4 are the strongest, and the poems should hinge on these.

Hope this has been enlightening, thanks for the read.

Reviewed by Carmen Ruggero

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

This is a subject that often chills my blood and stops my heart as I see so many lives go to waste. When and why do people make such choice? I don't really think it is a choice. I think some drift easely to quick comfort and vaporous rewards. Good write. A brain-stormer this one is.

Carmen

Reviewed by Esra Karatash Alpay

Reviewed on November 9, 2003

Sad, but true! Once caught in the stream, it's difficult to get out.

Reviewed by William Bonilla

Reviewed on November 8, 2003

Great write ...Zenith

William

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