Short thoughts in short sentences.

Your first stanza was an immediate attention grabber. “Where did my dreams go...that I’ve forgotten who to be.” This to me offers a dreadful tone, that the urge to plan and prepare for the worst has already occurred. Rather than a decline in ones life successes, instead it’s stagnant, so the poets impending doom, is already present before their eyes. Thus being, a well said and a great piece.

"I lost my pattern" - a clever insight since in the poem you do exactly that. But actually I wish you hadn't - the rhymes were subtle and already conveyed impending disintegration.

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This is great, I really enjoy the very human questions you are asking yourself here, it's very relatable to probably just about anybody. Was this pre written or on-the-fly? Because the self-conscious(?) Spacing at the end was great.

Oh man, I don't know what you've went through to make this poem, but I can relate to it a lot, there's this overarching feeling of trying to believe youre some sort of good person, but under your standards failing miserably at it, and be cause of that, you start being punished by a divine force for "cheating", the thing is you don't know if there even is a divine force, or if you created it yourself. It's like trying to see a pattern on a purely chaotic world, and trying to find yourself inside that chaos.

I don't have the answers to your questions, but as time goes on I truly think some of those question will go unanswered, and paradoxically, thats the answer itself, great poem!

I ask myself the question of qm I who I claim to be all the time, and generally I'm putting on a facade. I feel like this poem was written from a deep sense of depression that I hope you are able to conquer, you've got this and keep up the creative expression!

As everyone here has commented, this is certainly relatable in many ways. There was one line through, that stood out to me "hiding in the open". It really gave me pause for thought. Two opposing words/ concepts that shouldn't go together but do. I think most people are hiding in the open, although I suppose that some are hiding in private. Nonetheless, we are all hiding and I imagine this particular line makes people feel like at least they are not hiding alone.

This is really interesting and gets to the heart of how we are constantly shedding identity, even in the middle of writing the poem. Well done

There are things I do not know,

And no amount of thinking

Will bring these thoughts to me.

Wow.. love this.