Perhaps, thoughts of sadness do not exist in us, but outside of ourselves. It’s sometimes difficult for us to express our affectation. Emotions exist in many languages and expressive cultures. Yet, in this world we are survivors. Let us learn to love deeper. Perhaps, our sorrows and twisting paths only occur to amass our encountersContinue reading “Nunca se quita. Never Quit”
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These simple things
Your first expressions…. your silly faces, smiles and hugs surpass the beauty of those things we have ordained with marked complexity. Your simple eyes, endowed with grace and smallest utterances bestow your mother’s eyes with smooth silk threads. Beads of light braided into your small head, your curls are graced with goodness. A mothers loveContinue reading “These simple things”
Thank you 2022 Readers
Happy New Year to all of those lovely people who have the taken the time to be read my blog over these past three years! I started this blog as a space to process a tremendous amount of loss, the deaths of friends and family, moving, transitions, violence. This blog was a space for meContinue reading “Thank you 2022 Readers”
The damned promise land
We are taught that heaven can not exist without hell. That pleasure is paid trough pain Wealth is reaped from the famished. And our promised land was built on the genocide of the damned. Our forgiveness came through another’s false condemnation. Our mercy, we drink with blood. God’s power comes through his rejection of theContinue reading “The damned promise land”
Momma Sunshine and her Son Starlight
She was going out with a firefighter, but he burned more than he put out. He said I’m done. She said, love, you said I was your one? Later on that day. She found out she got a baby on the way. So she calls up her momma and says what do I do. IContinue reading “Momma Sunshine and her Son Starlight”
Hated girl within the mirror
Hated girlwithin the mirrorher hair too blondeAnd breasts too smallHer face so sullen Emaciated figurineStaring back into the darknesswondering at the sight of thee. Where is your love for her? God gave you her body to protect and love. Yet, you tear her limb from limb? You try to kill her energy. An infection toContinue reading “Hated girl within the mirror”
A prayer for a blog
A Book Of Poems, Prayers, And PainTestimony Without Last name Elements Seen And HeardSome Days Feeling Much, And Some Days Numb.One Day let this blog be a book for The Broken-HeartedLet This Pain, These Petals, This Rain, thorns, lyrics and Quizzical Psalms Sing For Themselves.Nameless And Maybe Among these Scribbles And Stray Notes. You mayContinue reading “A prayer for a blog”
She said you’re enough
I said to my friend. I’m sorry I speak too fast. Tell me to shut up. I won’t be offended. She said I like your voice. You break the silence and your my good friend. I said to my friend. I’m sorry I’m bossy. She said I love your guidance. I said to my friend.Continue reading “She said you’re enough”
Baptism without the rain
Welcome to New Mexico Now you may think that it’s dusty You may not notice it’s beauty at first But I hope dear friend after we spent so much time in the cold together that you can also see the beauty beyond snow in these dry landsCertain people think that the desert is always aContinue reading “Baptism without the rain”
The onset of sunset
The southern winds blow through the bluebells beside the creek. The onset of sunset arises to greet the lilting lake. While Aside the street, the dust of spanish moss falls soft on fallow fields; fallen red speckles hidden in their caresses Blazing star blooms dense beside the swampland highways And the twinkle of chimes fallsContinue reading “The onset of sunset”
In the Space In between unloved
Rosalie wrote frantically,Conspicuously cognizant of her own unintelligible ciphers: She threw down her pain and rain”In the space in-between, he does not love me! In the space in between she cries, but he does not call! He does not show tenderness in his voice.”For if his sweet breath was heard so heavy and sultry. SheContinue reading “In the Space In between unloved”
Reroute
When is it okay to reroute? Are these dead ends or only roads not yet paved? When do we depart from our original destination and commitments? Afraid of the future-You hurdle towards the seas and cliffs. Bounding, leaping, crying weeping. Too prove you are awake. To prove you lived through another day. Scribbling frantic melodiesContinue reading “Reroute”
Tough Love
Capo 7 G e C G eIntro Stop fucking quitting on yourselfPlease start investing in yourself, my love. Chorus I see more than you doAnd I know that in my soul that you will be just fine That you will be alright with time Stop looking to the past These worries soon shall pass SecondContinue reading “Tough Love”
But you went to heaven today
Capo 4 G e C e Chorus But went to heaven todayI miss you more every dayYour memory never will fade I would trade years of my life just to hold you again Verse 1 I wish I coule hold you again I wish I could just hold your handsVerse 2 I still see youContinue reading “But you went to heaven today”
Call Collect
Capo 6 D A e G DGod do you collect the poems we’ve forgot? The songs we’ve forgot to sing? God do you hold tightly to those we lost too early whose memory still hurts to speak of? God do you collect the prayers we have prayed. The sorrows we’ve shared and laid upon yourContinue reading “Call Collect”
You’ll always have my heart
Capo 4 You’ll always have my heart. GEven when I’m far D or em 2×I pray that God guides you G Guards you D And minds you. N leads you in all am your ways G I pray that he’ll find you GHelp you and mind you D Be there for you am Every dayContinue reading “You’ll always have my heart”
There Are No Missing Pieces
You claim I’m giving pieces of myself. Like candy cut up for the crowds. You claim I’m just like everybody else. That I don’t know the value of myself. Nobody can take what I don’t give. I still at the core am who I am. These scars upon my soul will soon fast heal. IContinue reading “There Are No Missing Pieces”
Collision of Souls
Let it go Let it goJust a collision of souls Let it go Let it go Let it go my lonely soul Don’t hold fast to the past These memories won’t last. Maybe you were wrong This life is full of accidents While some of them will fade Some of them may stay Let goLetContinue reading “Collision of Souls”
Your Memory Resounds
Buildup introduction: 4 bars (em/ i) Your memory resoundsYour memory resoundsYour memory resoundsInter verse: Your light reverberates in this earthly space Your love resonates with all Your kindness echoes through the passageways Your goodness is heard through our global Halls We always feel you hear with us Though I’ve searched for you in shadows IContinue reading “Your Memory Resounds”
The boundless rain
Since I left my heart beats out of pace. What kind of sign is it that without you and with this vast distance, the doctors claim my heart beats with the rain?How funny! And how strange? The farther I am from home-The more increase my woes.And my heart is truly breaking I can show you,Continue reading “The boundless rain”
Breath
Our very first breath is a cry. No lyrics and no rhymes. Our very first breath betrays us. The suffering of coming days. Our very first moment of sight is the end the darkness. The start of new light. Our very first moment we’re held.And love guides us above the hard ground. Our very firstContinue reading “Breath”
Swallow
Swallow me like Jonah in the sea. Where it’s quiet.Where there’s peace. I miss the kisses of it’s fluid nothingness. The depths with which it holds us in. I desire nothing moreThan to touch it’s floor. In my dreams and when I wake, I feel Yemayá’s sweet embrace. Swirling waters suck me in. Save meContinue reading “Swallow”
Glow up.
A month from now. I will grow up. Glow up. And you’ll remember this rosebud that you left in the dust who you tried to pluck, for now I am grown up. My pith has gained in width. My stems are longer now, my branches have more thorns. My sepals are not run out. AlthoughContinue reading “Glow up.”
Nothingness
Your lips bite strongYour tongue pulls hard Your pulse beats fast Touching my calvesBut your lips taste like nothingness Excellent formBut lacking affect Your moist lips are consuming only nothingness What do my lips say?For I know that I kiss urgently Wishing for more ever ferventlyFor I seem love so desperatelyThat I seek foremost yourContinue reading “Nothingness”
Which Part Do You Love?
Which Part Do You Love? For Like Legion- A Thousand Demons A Hundred Angels E Pluribus Unum Many Are One. The Sadness, Fears The Joy, And Tears. You Never Fully Saw And Shall Never Truly See. For You Only Loved A Part Of Me.
June
A child’s infant voice sings shrill asAgainst the cerulean sky-Crystal and clearThe father’s voice kind and rustic Answers back adding to the child’s play The sparrows and finches are chatting in their sprite like chorusAcross from this patch of lawnDaffodils wave gently, unfazed by the windThey flex as does the desert grass now brushed greenContinue reading “June”
I want the disney princess fairy shit
I want the Disney princess fairy shit: Monogamy and a faithful Legacy.Rather than invest in youthful flash which which soon does turn to leather I’ll gather my best and test the turbulent waters It is an act of bravery to risk love And an act of cowardice to never have loved enough the deep wellsContinue reading “I want the disney princess fairy shit”
Callous heart
Your heart is from caged and callousedIt’s rust at the seams It’s dirt and corroded Your brokenness it bleeds You say that you must protect your heart And you have let your let your courage departSo tell me how it feels to have a metal heart in a world that’s full of rain? I thinkContinue reading “Callous heart”
Where will you go oh soul?
Where will you go?Oh soul of mine-Shall you return to your first love divine?Shall you in your temple beget a new soul? Or should you forget these lands of conception Your eyes forever in deception, of the love first conceived-to wonder new lands in search of your dreams?Should you return to the fertile dry groundsContinue reading “Where will you go oh soul?”
Rusted love
The birds must drink their mead to sing The grass only dances with the breezeThe river charts her path with the guidance of the seas The stars only shine when the moon rears her wreath But our love is corrodedNo more can it be The rust we created Between you and me
The Silent Singer 