"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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what do you think about this poem i wrote.

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Oblivion

So utterly enveloped in
the dark of nothingness;
My essence is forgotten, now
enslaved by the abyss.

The black is overbearing me,
exalted far and wide;
subdued perpetuation is,
now where I’ll reside.

To walk, and talk and be again,
Is all I reverie;
A glimpse of such a place of life
emits a strange eerie

To know that black is evermore –
a nihilist dimension.
Lost forever, that’s for sure,
Precludes my dreamed redemption.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Quite depressing man.
 

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My friend, some constructive criticism.

Good art should transcend the personal. IE, write about something simple that applies to anyone in your situation. In other words, your poem is too personal.

Also, stay away from rhymes!!

I have been published extensively in the small press-poems, stories, reviews, letters, etc.

Keep at it......
 

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hey thank you all for the constructive criticism! I take it lightheartedly, and will use it to my benefit!

This is my first poem, so i just wanted to experiment with technique and sh*t.

Also yeah it sort of is depressing but this is what i think will happen after death, so its merely just a point of view.

but real appreciation, for those who took the time to check it out and write something. thanks :)
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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