But... this is good! I am amazed. I agree with you poetry is a complete different way of writing.
It's hard to find the right words to discribe what you inyend to say.
Symbolism can work but so does saying it straight forward.
At the start if May I bought in a secindhand shop a series if books with texts of Gerard Reve.
Some are only 5 lines. A kind if puzzles for the brain with a sence of humour, sadness, frustratiin, a bit of anger.

I like the part of the punisher and "the one with the thousand faces"

The last sencente... "read" you could change in "opened yet".

You should save it and so will I. I'll leave the candle burn just like in the dong of Rob de Nijs.

I wonder what the lake will look like if it reflects the moon.

Keep writing!
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