All Comments on 'Dangerous Attraction'

That last line gets a five by itself!

Flyguy

A heartbreaking account of a one-sided relationship, in which one takes advantage, uses and remains for his/her own purposes rather than for the emotional investments.

Your poem is mentioned on the New Poetry Review thread for Tuesday 22nd March.

Frightening, raw and cruel. Well written and just brutal. Thanks for sharing - Willow

gotta agree with fly......nicely done!!

This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 37,000 poems.

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I had my first poem accepted by Lit exactly a week ago. It, and none of my other five submissions, have been as well received as I thought they would have been and I've wondered why. Of course I can see the failings in the writing itself - that is clear, but beyond that I'm wondering at the fact that I IDENTIFY with the man in this poem! My critics have said that the themes in my stories and poems are dark and that they don't like them for that reason. Having read this poem and understanding it, perhaps more than anything else that I have read this morning, has shown me how emotionally dead I really am. It is a very sobering thought and something that I must reflect upon further. Thank you for this.