Why you standing at the corner
when the room is round
Curtail the curtains
Let the sun hit the ground
It's not gonna melt you, the promise it make
Perhaps want to mould you, the time all it takes
Be the moon and reflect the cold soothing light
Might there be a wallflower holding the corner tight
How many sunrise you missed how many sunsets you let go?
Just passing year by year no memories to show
......
You could belong to someone
but only seasonally or temporarily:
to one can you belong to- only-
that is yourself-- for all times to be
I am most at peace when others would break,
Floating above my body after the fall,
Calm in the car that became our home,
Finding stillness in what should destroy.
They ask who I am-as if I should know,
......
I saw him packing all those clothes I knew,
all those clothes I had hugged.
And when he closed that luggage,
he closed me in there.
All I wanted,
I wanted to scream.
Please,
don't leave.
I kept silently lying on that bed instead.
yo también vengo de las estrellas,
hecha de silencio, luz y polvo.
no estamos solos.
Twenty hours it took me to read Moby Dick. That marks twenty years of a life lived for others. Twenty years in pursuit of another's happiness. Twenty years to feel like I could walk into a room that, for many reasons, wouldn't accept me. Twenty hours to realize my own white whale, and now I can’t even tell anyone without sounding like a pretentious dick.
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I.
He whispered my name.
“Show me where your story lives.”
I offered my scars.
II.
Plates overflowing.
Hands open, wordless welcome.
“There’s plenty,” they say.
......
yo también vengo de las estrellas,
hecha de silencio, luz y polvo.
no estamos solos.
I am most at peace when others would break,
Floating above my body after the fall,
Calm in the car that became our home,
Finding stillness in what should destroy.
They ask who I am-as if I should know,
......
I saw him packing all those clothes I knew,
all those clothes I had hugged.
And when he closed that luggage,
he closed me in there.
All I wanted,
I wanted to scream.
Please,
don't leave.
I kept silently lying on that bed instead.