I Do Not Die

“Courting my failures” - favorite line.

Congratulations.

I have stated my opinion regarding your poetry before, it's fascinating how you use nature as a main character to present your different thoughts. You play with the words and employ the metaphor very well. So much deserving and glad to see this on the front page.

This poem is filled with deep metaphors and sentiments and I had to re and re-read it to get to its depth. This can go in any direction but it all leads to the fact that no matter what is happening around this thing/person/earth, it stays unattached and un-involved not wanting to know anything..

Congrats on the win!

Dark, haunting, frustrated. The themes and character of this poem are subtlety built and only portrayed by innuendo ("An imbecile / sky pours the eyes, nose and ears. / ... I am persona non grata / in my own home. The moon does not cry.") You are there corporally yet you had to open a lid to emerge as a metamorphized insect-like being; your vampiric nature does not allow you to die yet you are "stupid, courting [your] failures."
The poem has multiple layers, one being the apparent depiction of the monster, but another being that of an estranged father-husband, no longer involved in the lives or loves of his family, avoided and treated as dead to those who once made up his world. He cannot leave, but there is nothing there for him to stay. (Contest comment).