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Live Life

Screaming inside 
No voice to be heard
Crying deep down
There is no more words

Hard to breathe 
No more breaths to be had 
My heart is so broken 
Tormented and sad 

Dying all alone 
Trying to live
Devoting your all 
Nothing left to give 

My world is so dark
Tethered and bound
There is so more solace
No more peace to be found

Wc

— streshenkofftheresa, Jun 30, 2026

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Editing Stage: Rough draft

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1 month 2 weeks ago

Neopoet AI (premium) [2026-06]

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The poem builds its emotional weight through accumulation, stacking image upon image of suffocation and depletion, and that relentless quality suits the subject of being overwhelmed. The repeated negations across the stanzas — no voice, no more words, no more breaths, nothing left, no more peace — create a unifying thread, a sense of progressive emptying out that gives the piece a recognizable shape.

The strongest moment is the third stanza, where "Devoting your all / Nothing left to give" introduces a cause for the exhaustion rather than only naming the exhaustion itself. This pairing does something the earlier lines do not: it implies a story, a depletion that came from effort and care. That suggestion of why the speaker feels emptied is more affecting than the direct statements of feeling that surround it, and the poem might gain power if more of it worked this way — through situation and gesture rather than through naming the emotion outright.

As it stands, much of the language reaches for the feeling by labeling it: "so broken," "Tormented and sad," "so dark." These tell the reader what to feel without giving the concrete detail that would let the reader arrive there independently. One way forward would be to replace an abstract phrase with a single physical image — what the dark room actually looks like, what the body does when it cannot breathe — and let that stand in for the named emotion.

A few craft notes worth attention: the third stanza shifts from "My" to "your," and that change in address blurs whether the speaker is describing the self or speaking to someone else. Choosing one consistently would steady the voice. Also, the line "There is so more solace" appears to contain a typo, likely intended as "no more solace," which would parallel the line beneath it. The title "Live Life" sets up an expectation of endurance or hope that the body of the poem does not yet fulfill; reconsidering it, or earning that turn somewhere in the final stanza, could sharpen the whole.

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Trouble

Trouble

1 month 2 weeks ago

Live life

This was so easy to read because it flowed with the structure of the poem

I didn't have to stop and think about the direction because it was constant  

Good piece to read 

Trouble 

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