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Cookie Cutter Girl
I’ve always been a cookie cutter girl.
pressed into shapes I never liked.
Rolled and folded into the perfect form.
My face and body configured
to make me look appetizing.
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356 days.
It had been
356 days,
8,544 hours,
512,640 minutes,
since March 11, 2025.
It had been
356 days of smiling,
and crying, and yelling,
and laughing, and fighting,
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She Was Me
I had a funeral yesterday.
A quick goodbye to
the person closest to me.
I can’t quite recall when she died.
It has been so long
since she was alive.
Why have I held on to
her lifeless body?
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Was love enough?
I chose to lose you,
to lose the love you gave me.
I had to leave you.
I didn’t mean to
let our relationship die.
I couldn’t take it.
Our love looked perfect,
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Vice and Virtue
Loyal
Opportunity
Virtuous
Eccentric
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Lethargic
Oblivious
Volatile
Ephemeral
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changing seasons
Icy, cold, wet ground.
I wish that spring would come soon.
Botanical light.
Loves
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cherry blossom
they arrive like guests
unannounced
uninvited
but welcome
as if they were never gone at all
soft spoken creatures
draped in pale pink
like secrets almost told
they do not bloom loudly
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the stranger
i saw a girl once
laughter and sunshine in her opal eyes
a twitch of a smile almost too brief
hair so unruly as if the wind had made the strands its own
a lankiness to her like branches on the limbs of a tree
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four different therapists
she sits across from me.
i sink into the middle cushion.
every session seems the same.
rings on her fingers.
a vibrant colored shirt.
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the jester
the jester wore a mask
bright reds blues and yellow
to remind those who were sad
of happiness and delight
he never stopped laughing
afraid if he did there would be no jester anymore
the jester and the princess -
Maria
Her name was Maria
My mom's friend Maria
La mariposa she says
Soy la mariposa
Because she spread her wings
To the land of kings
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lost together
its like
walking through
a forest
where you
think no
one can
hear you
but yourself
you scream
at the
top of
your lungs
until your
insides burn
you're alone