I had discovered this artist through their most recent (at the moment of review) Daily Deviation, "Skip This One If You Have A Dick." After reading that gem, I rushed over to PinkyMcCoversong's other works to see if I could find any more great reads, and stumbled upon this in the process.

We'll start with vision. The writer clearly knows what they want to do with this work. It has a clear theme with splashes of romance that doesn't need to be orchestrated overtly. This category is well established. For a short poem, it features a fine combination of our lives here on Earth meeting the philosophical quandaries of where we lie in the universe. We as the reader are delivered this message with ease.

Next, originality. This is easily the weakest category, and really, it should be. The subject we see is simple and perhaps overstated. It's even explicitly worded in the fourth stanza - "..I'd like to think that this is an okay cliche..." The idea central to this piece is our place in this ever-expanding existence, which has been tackled by writers and other artists for ages. So has citing our own cliches. But please understand, for what the deviant works with, this subsection can't really be improved.

Now my favorite - technique. I gave this the highest rating because this is what made the poem. In my experience, writing Free-Verse can be troublesome purely because the lack of structure can spur syntax into cacophony. This doesn't happen here. In fact, the style gives it a kind of bounce. It's got a beat and I love it! We get a balance of human condition meets the modern age. Like I said before, unoriginal, but it works.

Finally, the impact stems from the feeling the reader gets as those "okay cliches" set in. Solid. In closing, I look forward to seeing more writing from this deviant, and to PinkyMcCoversong, a job well done.