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[X-M-O]

All right, so I normally do not ever submit my own written works anywhere online (past results have ended in theft), however this will be a topic where I will submit a couple of things that I'm interested in receiving feedback on (nothing I will be publishing, these are strictly personal works and are copyright to me). =]


For now I'm only going to submit a poem to see if I can get the kind of feedback I'm looking for; if I get enough, I'll start posting up some pieces of a story that I've been wanting to finish writing, but haven't had the motivation to complete (it will be a short story, unless feedback here pushes me to write more, lol).

Here's what I have for now, an old poem I wrote back in High School. ^^

The Blind Child

I was born blind,
I see no colour.
I am sidelined,
I have no mother.

I have been marred,
And you will agree,
It would be hard
To live like me.

In the darkness
I still see light,
In the vision-less
I still see right.

What I envision
Is not fine arts.
It is precision
Defining hearts.

[X-M-O]

I'm actually not at all opposed to the way the contest was done, but that's because it was the contest I chose to enter; there were several, and free-style was the topic of one of them, but that is also where all of the "uneducated" people were entering (I saw that, because I was very prejudice against other students that did not study or that were noisy during class, etc.).
I've lost that bias now, but at the time I wouldn't associate myself with anyone that wasn't in my group (smart girl club, but we were all into art and music - and there was a guy in our group).

I've always had problems with my eyes, so taking care of a girl that was blind really made me appreciate things more (it just took a while to get some of that prejudice out of my head).