Hey Thanks! Going to work on your suggestion and try to explore the dynamic a bit more.
Im really glad that you enjoyed it!

I adore this concept, forming a tulpa of someone else. On top of that you added another layer of the tulpa being imperfect (as it could only ever be), and even though it speaks positively, it isn't the real thing and can't fill the hole of the other person. Seriously a great concept for a poem. 

Since it's something that exists in your own mind, the poem does a good job of feeling intimate, but I'd love that to be explored a bit more. What the dynamic is like, if you conversate at all maybe?

Good stuff. I really enjoyed this.

It's funny how much people reveal about themselves while they describe others. You do a great job of giving life to the narrator even though all they do is compare the tulpa to the 'you'.

Why do use these-- dashes throughout? They mess with the flow and make it difficult! to read. Your punctuation in general needs some work.

I really liked this poem, and it sort of reminded me of like a modern-day Emily Dickinson, but still very original, very nice.

He speaks in your voice, 




but he does not have your eyes.




I can not figure out how-- to make




my copy exude authenticity. 



I wanted to 




endow him with all of your




sadness.




Your vague depravity, 




your wishful wanting,




which you kept so! 




carefully confined--




to my utter chagrin.




He now speaks feel good fodder, 




and affirmations,




blunt, and un-needed realisms.




I did not ask for this, 




I did not mean for this.




This, this was not my.. intent.




My devout 




continues to smile in shades of 




orange (a color I disdain) and when 




given an essence, seems only 




to spout. I bare him my soul,




and he only replies, 




‘Tomorrow will be better’.







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