by pelegrino
hi, pelegrino :)
a sweetly wistful, old-romantic tone to this piece that does feel as if it's quite musical in nature.
Since you're using punctuation, it might be tightened up - for example, there are places a semi-colon would be better, and places you can drop the commas altogether, allowing the line-break to serve for that small pause a comma would lengthen too much.
so, where you have this kind of layout:
Perhaps this nothing that I've got,
Is everything that I deserve,
In vicious circles to be caught,
Sometimes even to lose my nerve.
I watch the candidate full moon,
From my hillside's lonely home,
Three-four days old, not setting soon,
I still don't know where love comes from.
if you altered the punctuation to this, i feel it would benefit the write:
Perhaps this nothing that I've got
Is everything that I deserve;
In vicious circles to be caught,
Sometimes even to lose my nerve.
I watch the candidate full moon
From my hillside's lonely home;
Three-four days old, not setting soon,
I still don't know where love comes from.
Interesting choice of word with 'candidate'; what was your specific reasoning, pelegrino? I'm hearing 'candy' and 'date', so link the moon with a sweet date, and even 'candid date' reflecting a sense of honesty in the thoughts being expressed by the N; i'd like to know if there's a particular reason behind 'candidate' as its inherent meaning? it fascinates me as a choice :D