Some sorrows strip of us of our very flesh,
corrosive hatred rakes away sinews, tendons
and that covering of many colors...
One mistake undid me
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Now THIS is a 10! Powerful, beautiful, filled with pain and regret.
'Some sorrows strip of us of our very flesh' is a wonderful line but is there one too many 'of's'? 'What has an old Mother but her family' puzzled me at first; a few lines later I saw what it foreshadowed. Once again just my opinion
but I would move the line down some.
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Now THIS is a 10! Powerful, beautiful, filled with pain and regret. 'Some sorrows strip of us of our very flesh' is a wonderful line but is there one too many 'of's'? 'What has an old Mother but her family' puzzled me at first; a few lines later I saw what it foreshadowed. Once again just my opinion but I would move the line down some.