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Aiden Marquis's avatar

I like how you wrote that the known is now unknown.

As one ventures deeper into the search for meaning, he is baptized by truth, and all of the programming he has experienced since birth begins to fall away.

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Beyond Couture Films's avatar

The way you repeated Daughter of the Abyss pulled me right into the center of the poem. It felt like a chant, something ritualistic, and I could almost hear the weight of each return. The cold castle imagery stayed with me too, that sense of someone moving through shadows that know more than any living thing should. It gave the whole piece a quiet menace that lingered after the last line. I liked feeling the shift from seeking power to being transformed by it.

The mix of devotion and dread in your language made the world feel close and far at the same time. Those lines about the book being everything now felt like a warning and an invitation in one place. It made me think of moments when obsession becomes a doorway you never meant to open. There was something strangely tender in the way you wrote about darkness.

The poem breathed with its own strange pulse.

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