Anxious Poem

[purplie]

I often end poems with a sort of dramatic line
I’d like to think it’s a bad habit - this is the interesting line, because you're saying that it's not a bad habit, but you'd like to think that it is. The reader first has to decide whether they agree, because it's not at all an obvious question. And then they're left wondering why you wish that it is.

everything has to be:
life changing
inspiring
ugly
beautiful
black - this comes off as a reference to wokeness or political correctness. I don't know if that was your intent.
off-white

see
just there
I could have ended with
“i should stop and smell the roses”

The impulse to make the last line the significant one is definitely real, at least for me. Bad habit? What makes a habit bad? Using an effective technique too often? Illogical. Using a predictable form? Goodbye sonnets, haiku, every other poetic form.