Firstly, I came across this using the Random Read feature.
Your "loving nature" acrostic is perfectly executed. Visually the poem is lovely to look at with its line length progression going longer and then shorter. Unfortunately, I feel that several places you chose words simply to fill up the line to the needed length. A striking example is the incorrect line "A person of whom was never unwanted", which I will deal with later.
As a reader, however, I do not easily find the tie between the secret message of the acostic, the idea conveyed in the title of "All I have" and the body of the poem which speaks about seeing what truly exists. I am certain that in your mind the three co-exist perfectly, but what you have placed on the page does not bring the three elements together, yet. Possibly with a bit of editing you can correct this, or at least leave hints that point the reader in the direction of your initial thoughts while composing this poem.
In short poetry, and indeed even within my longer pieces, I try to avoid using the same words twice in a row. Your poem does this regularly - look at the number of times see and its forms, eyes, behold and wanted are used. Is this bad? Not necessarily if the poem is a contemporary speech style story poem. This is not the case of your verse here. Why avoid repeating words? As a writer, and especially a writer of poetry, synonyms are what it's about. Finding yet another word to express, just a tad differently, the same ideas already penned, greatly improves the quality of the ideas set upon paper.
One grammatical error is glaring:" A person of whom was never unwanted." A person WHO was never unwanted. And I'm sorry to insist, but this line does not connect well with the preceding one. Once again, the idea in your head is certainly clear concerning what you meant here; this does not come across through your words. There is also a problem getting to and from the line "undoubtedly the truth I seek" which needs a phrase to complete it, as "IS renewed inside of my heart." But here, for you line length, you have eliminated the only word which will make sense of this particular line, the verb.
Also in your line "Versions of life that passes by" since there is no immediate reference to either versions or life, I would read the phrase as Versions (which ones? those of life) PASS by. This is the more correct way to write this idea. Now, had you been previously talking about the waking and dreaming states of life, there would be a case for writing the idea "these different versions of a that life passes by" but this is not what you have placed on the page. And shortening this particular idea to fit into the line-length puzzle of your poem is difficult.
It's nice to see poets with ideas. In my humble opinion, you've tried to place too many limits - an acrostic that gives the poem a hidden meaning as well as a line-length visual effect — upon a poem whose ideas need more space on the page to be properly communicated with the reader.
Keep writing,
alfred
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