Here I Am, These Days

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Enjoy.

(I write poetry so infrequently that I'm not starting an anthology, though if that ever changes I will start one.)

Dude, way to go! :o That was just... stupendous!

The song pulses into my brain as I walk outside
Beating my ass out of the door

I think "in" would work better than "into" and you could do without the "of".

The secrets from my own brain I have kept

I also think shortening "I have" to "I've" would make that line flow better.

The Death is pointed at the ground I call

That last part, "I call", is confusing. Care to elaborate?

Metal to fire to tears come whence

A comma between "fire" and the second "to", for flow reasons.

That only violence could have faced

Another confusing line.

Overall I loved the word choice and usage here; very prosaic. Awesome sauce. ;)

I liked everything except...

Originality is my forte and one strength

Knowing when to use it is my follyAberinkulas

That just sounded very clunky to me. 

Also, I know the same thing has been said of and to me and I have refused, but... people often suggest that at least a full-stop is put at the end of poems, even if there are no other punctuations. Of course, I don't mind having no punctuations at all, but if you think that you'd like to conform to the rigidity of poetry...

I intended to write my AP ode that was due today and instead came up with this.

The one line where it ends with "I call" went through many, many revisions, as I struggled to make it embody all the ideas I wanted inside of it. I guess it didn't work that well.

The rest that you mentioned Flash were all intentional to an extent. Hard to explain, so I won't.

Glad you guys liked it. Yay for not doing homework!

What is this strange thing you call homework?

And I was impressed by your lack of punctuation. Epic.