Help me learn how to be strong.
I wonder how I ever got to be so weak.
I don't know who I am, or who I belong to anymore.
There is nothing on which I can feed.
I am starving for attention.
A kind word or phrase.
I shake my head as if to rattle all the lose thoughts, setting them free.
I am no longer defined by you,
As I once tried to confine myself to you.
So now I'm me.
Whoever she turns out to be.
Whoever...
But I need a break from all this thinking.
It just takes me in circles.
I don't know what to do with the love I have for you.
I don't know why things go wrong.
Hate and Love so closely bound in me
You have to see that.
So now I'll fly across the country.
Find a quiet place to hide
Weeping till there are no more tears left in me to cry.
But I can't keep from shuddering,
thinking of the things I use to be.
And all the things that I allowed to happen to me.
It's a shame, that's all I know.
It's all been a bitter shame.

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too choppy sorry!

so fix it- it definitely has the potential to be stronger as a poem than
the moment that inspired it.

FIX WHAT!?!? This is great. The line structure could be said to be
choppy, but I see it as confused and frustrated. Perhaps the way the
author felt when writing it. 
Brenna, this poem feels really real. I believe it. I love the emotion
My suggestion is don't change a thing.
It carries the reality of the moment. The moment you wrote it.
That's hard to capture, but you succeeded wonderfully.

thank you very much fraizer...but I missed it in some hard to define way.
I missed the feeling of turning in circles to find nothing...but you've both
given me hope I can fix it.

If YOU want to fix, then by all means, do it. But only if YOU want to.
I personally love it as is.

Now I know why this is called the, "writing conference" instead
of the, "GOOD writing conference"!!!!!

... of the, "GOOD writing conference"!!!

I dare say that's one of the rudest posts I've seen in a while, Bradly.

I agree with brighn.

Good bad or ugly, this is meant (i hope) to be a place where people
can express themselves.  If you don't like a poem, and can't come up
with a constructive reason why, shut your trap.  Otherwise, offer some
aid.  I'll get off my soap box now.

Now that bradly realized how much of an arogant DIPSHIT he is,I hope
he will post some of his works of art so we can carefully read them
over, with noe bias, and RIP THEM TO SHREDS!
Yes, I am very pissed...

not worth the energy, folks.  let it go.

Agreed. But that was just a shitty and ignorant thing for him to say.

Everybody seems to be "expressing themselves" very well.  Keep up the
good work!  :)

well I wish I hadn't come back to see that! how very rude! And may I say
sir in my own rude style I know why people call you what they do....
And for the sake of the lovely audience here I'll leave it at that.

      Dear Brenna,

   I apoligize for that comment. If you don't overcome your anger
  I cannot blame you for anything. But if you ever find it in your
  heart to forgive an insensitive remark, please read my explination
  at the end of the apoligy. I try my best not to make enemys. I'm
  very sorry, and will accept any critizism from you.



      I hope my explination will do some comfort.
  
    Quite a while ago I gave my login and password to a 
  'friend'. After a fight with that 'friend' he moved away before 
  we could be reconciled. The rest is sad history. Be assured that I
  changed my password, and that I am very very sorry. 

                                 Sincerely,
                                             Stephen Quinn

I accept your apology ...please forgive my temper.

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