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IDYLLIC

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What's happened to the world
Is everything we live a lie?
When we pretend
To live our lives
Do parts of us
Just die?

We sit around in church
Praying to gods
Dead or gone
In our homes
We discuss pseudoscience
Sitting on our lawns

And we get drunk
Without thinking about
Dire consequence
When we wake up
In the mornings
We forget our common sense

And we like to
Sit and boast about
All our wasted years
Making problems
Into jokes
And then lying 'bout our fears

Where's the happiness?
The true happiness?
When did being false
Become idyllic?
All these little half-truths
Are making me sick

Did happiness run off
With love;
Leave us all
To face the test?
Can we make it on our own
If it's more fun
Just to undress?
Do the masks we wear
Reflect ourselves?
We live easily-wrapped
Packaged lives
Decaying on dusty shelves
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Akeno's avatar
Absolutely stunning, as usual. The poem is good, but not great. I guess I just have specific tastes. I really do love the last stanza, though, and I love how much depth is in that one stanza. Some of the others sort of just...ended, and didn't finish the though (at least, to me). I, for one, know that a poet's view of a poem and a reader's view are completely different, so maybe you meant for these elements, but I myself would've preferred to see the "thoughts" finished.

Now, the art. Even after you explained to me the stuff you do, I still don't understand how you do it x_x. The whole image is great, and it all flows together very well. Like nex, the only part I really see as not fitting completely is the grid, but everything else is gorgeous. I can't wait for more from you.