The sense of impotence and despair in this poem is palpable but I can see why the Greek poet saw the promise in it. It was your dark night of the soul, Arthur. Perhaps you view this as a watershed moment (pardon the pun) and a benchmark against which you will compare all your subsequent work - if that's the case that would be a mistake. One poem doesn't make or break you but it can hold you back as can criticism even if justly deserved - we evolve and grow - the poems I write now are not the same ones I wrote at seventeen - I clung to those poems at first thinking they were pearls of great value but it wasn't the poems - it was the man who wrote them. Strangely enough, just recently I went on an old high school friend's Facebook page and he was referring to a poem he wrote in 2013 and he had just written another one. Really? In six years you have two poems - what have you been doing with your life? Well, that's what I thought - I give my poems away for nothing and have done so ever since 2013 when I first went on Twitter. It doesn't diminish me - it enables me to grow. I believe in the coming of the new - if you are a writer, you write continuously and keep writing even when 'blocked'. Your life isn't blocked as long as you're alive - living is breathing in- writing is breathing out. Continue to write, Arthur, and fulfill the promise that Greek poet saw in you. Don't pay attention to fears and self-doubt - we all have them - curiously, the only people who don't are the hacks. Thank you for sharing this work!