Paper Stages

Brilliant.  I like the rhyming and message.  It has somewhat of a feel of a confession, ha-ha, with self being the subject matter.  Still though, very defining coherence of some very rational things to the aware mind.  I like the changes in the course of direction that it carries, in showing your struggle with being an artist.  In my puny little opinion, good job, heh.  Thanks for sharing!

I appreciate your feedback, I don’t get a lot and your opinion matters to me. I like to know who’s reading and their take on things. For some reason much of what I’ve been writing tends to have a confessional vibe to it as of late. I struggle with how honest to be at times. There’s layers to every confession where people can admit they fail in a certain area but other may not actually know how deep the rabbit hole goes so to speak. It’s interesting how when something is cleverly divulged it can be praised for its honesty but without all the flowery words some confessions girder the weight of more judgements from people than other confessions. We have an idea of how we categorize sin and limits to our perception of how far we might take the message of love when the Bible exhorts us to love the unlovely and our enemies. People love those who are easy to love and are quick to look down on others before they take the idea of what loving the unlovely looks like. Poetry is funny in the way it can hide hideous things in plain sight and make roses of garbage.

Yeah, with believing in scripture, it comes with the territory - to observe and see such.  Also, the author will find their identity in their work too, as that's how it goes.  Maybe it takes a bit to recognize, but self-reflection and/or traits and characteristics come out in your writing, if you're an author.  At least they do for me.  Anyway, knowing truth will make things seem hideous and ugly when they come to the surface, but that's only so that you can address them.  Think of gold being tried in the fire, to remove the dross.  Being able to see it like that, along with knowing the attitudes of people creates a unique perspective.  I guess maybe why I interpreted a confession out of it is because I see some of the same challenges in myself.  Your work is vicarious to me.

100 percent agree, you’re not wrong about it being confession and apologetic in nature