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I’m doing a poetry unit in English mixed with Romeo and Juliet and was inspired to rewrite a poem I wrote awhile ago it’s still a rough draft but I need help making it flow better and I wanted to run it by the awesome answerers on Brainly.
It’s a little personal to me but I hope the reader (you) will be able to understand it which is why I need critiquing.Please give me your honest feedback on it.
Also it may be a little depressing and overly sappy just a warning in advance.
Here it is:
E/N
To everybody and nobody who has been everything and nothing to someone.
Her eyes a changing green
Lower my self esteem
The smile she wears
Shows she cares
For me
But all I see
Is that while holding my hand she is uneasy
So under my breath I recite her poetry
To calm her mind
And with my reciting I find
That I’m nervous
Even though we know these stares can’t hurt us
They’re wearing us thin
Getting beneath our skin
Making me realize her heart is not mine to win
Because she’s my original sin
Everyday I can’t suppress the heartfelt feelings within
So I tell her everything
And to this fickle hope I cling
That she’ll stay with me
But I notice how he stares at her in class
And how she just waits for his gaze to pass
With a smile on her face
That should but fails to be out of place
She shatters my heart
Yet I don’t want to be apart
From her
So the days became clouded and blurs
And the voices I hear become slurs
And when asked if we are together
She just laughs it off and said we’re birds of a feather
But they still ask what I am to her
So I assure
That we’re friends
But that all depends
On her feelings
And whether they reopen my scars
And leave me bleeding
While we look up at the stars
Imagining we are everything
When we feel like nothing
When the numbness sets in
When the cruelty wins
When people question who we are to each other
I’ll say you’re nothing and everything to me
Just like the stars and are feelings both a glimmer of hope
But easily explode and go up in smoke
You are everything and nothing
For being my everything and nothing
I forgive you for not blushing when I tried being romantic
I forgive you for crushing on a complete lunatic
I forgive you for doing and being everything and nothing
Forgive me now for letting you be something
When to you all I could ever be is just another human being
That you’d use and abuse
And trick with your ruse
Like these other beings you’d tell me what I couldn’t hear
When you meant nothing behind it except fear
Fear for them knowing what you were like inside
Fear for them knowing the secrets you hide
Yet for years I stayed loyal by your side
I gained your trust and my trust you never even tried
Tried to gain my feelings that were nothing to you but something to me
So thank you for making me feel everything but empty
And helping me see the who I am, the real me.
From your friend, Everything and Nothing.