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So this is great, but please format it better and use line breaks or something to make it feel less like I'm speeding through the lines. Otherwise great job

This is my favorite on Reddit so far, very original and I could resonate with it, but it’s just the missing commas in some places made it a little hard to follow but regardless I really love this piece

This is actually great, though i do advice that you work on your proper format. Still, great job

Hope,  a  poison  that  infected  my  soul.
 
Infested  in  my  bones,  

letting  them  be  broken, time  and  time  again.

 Too  cruel  to  let  me  learn  my  lesson.

Too  cruel  to  let  me  go.

Killing  me  in  it's  possessive  clutches

Hope  was  my  enemy  

Hope  was  my  weakness 

Hope  was  my  downfall

Hope   carved  my  grave  stone

Hope  cruelly  was  my  finality 

But  then  came  a  bittersweet  time,  when  hope released  me  from  it's  cage.

Perhaps  it  needed  to  teach  me  a  lesson

Perhaps  it  simply  gave  me  a  way  to  exist 

Perhaps  it  decided  to  let  me  look  through  the  veil , only  a  few  has  a  privilege  to  witness  

True  and  utter  hopelessness.

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