Interesting what a weary soul will do when feeling lonely and confused like this guy you speak of. His thoughts were - he doesn't know me and will be fully honest. Which, any good friend should be, so by addressing you and him as friend, it seemed proper. Great poem too hey.

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Ish happens to the best of us
Sometimes it cuts like a knife
Pain's like a blessing, a curse
It is just one part of being alive

Guess that's what he needed to hear, that it was going to be better, that the pain will go away
All the best with the challenge 😊

There is what feels like such an undeniable truth of emotion in the poem. 

The contrast in the first and last verse is really powerful. From the first verse where 'soulmate' becomes 'her' and love is thrown away by someone who didn't value it, to instead seeing love as dying. You capture the duality of heartbreak, both the outward push of hurt, and the need for it to have been real and died. 

The middle verse really carries a feeling of being gutted, of an overflowing love, and a void left in its place, and with it, the feeling of having none left to give. It holds a deep pain so vast and resounding, refuge is sought in a hollow shell of nothingness. 

Yet

>Would I still have tried to live for what dies?

the fact that it ends on this question carries so much, even after all the emotion, there question of was it worth it, would I do the same again, still remains. Very accurate portrayal of the nature of love, how easily it twists and hurts, how hard it is to truly get over, the endless wondering.

As for your friend, probably something not too dissimilar. Fucking sucks, to think someone loves you completely, and find they hadn't meant a word of it. There is something almost transcendent in the way people can and do confide in strangers, a trust of humanity, and level of deeper understanding that can pass between people who have never met before, and will probably never meet again.

Hi, @hazem91.

##### About the poem:

I treacherous woman is a classic motive for a poem. In the first stanza we learn the speaker is probably a man who feels betrayed (by life, destiny?) and has been hurt after getting the _wrong_ soulmate. In the second stanza, he lets us know he's not able to love again because he feels empty. The irony of his circumstances is stressed in the third stanza: 
>Her smile in my eyes, Her voice in my head,
>Our vows to hold tight... none of them were lies.

This woman has become his _soulmate_ indeed, but in such a twisted way: she is attached to him like a haunting **ghost**.

I read it aloud and there is an anapest at the end of each line. Nice!

Although it is a classic topic, you made it sound like heavy metal; the way I see it, this intensity is a plus.

Thanks for sharing :)

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##### About the backstory and your final question:
It’s a tough one for me. I'm rather shy when it comes to talking to strangers. I think that anybody who chooses to talk to a stranger to discuss such matters probably needs professional help. However, the reply “You should see a psychiatrist” is far from polite and may hurt them instead of helping them. I think I’d just tell him that I’m sorry and that I understand how terrible his situation must be. I believe that commiseration is what most people with this sort of behavior are looking for; just a sample of warm empathy in a cold, cold world.