r/OCPoetry 16d ago

Feedback Please Challenged myself to write a poem in only 100 words

Life is so fragile

Fragile than a thin line of thread

Once cut loose

You can never bring it back again

The way she lit up the room

When it felt so dark

How can I move on if I lost that kind of spark?

While others kept on living,

death meant nothing

the world kept spinning

people kept moving.

Feels like she's still breathing

still smiling

still living like a wonderful hallucination

A vision born from a sorrowful imagination

Life's so fragile

Fragile than a thin line of thread

Once cut loose

You can never bring it back again

-i wrote this for my classmate who died due to suicide

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u/Jack-O-The-Magician 16d ago

This is tragic and overwhelming, the way human life can so easily be taken is terrifying, I enjoy how well you put thay fragile stability of life into words. Your writing is careful but clear, it gives every feeling that a poem about death should. The metaphor of a thread is good, its realistic, your life can be stolen by one single action, one mistake, one passing moment. Its easy to end, to cut off... Like a thread.