let’s harmonize

let’s harmonize

maybe if you loved a little harder and i loved a little smarter, maybe we wouldn’t have to sit down so seriously and talk about such tiring things. you once saw my tragedy and named it beauty; i saw the opposite–i saw a lost soul and built it a home between the valley of my [...]

forgotten

forgotten

forgotten; distilled air, we flowers know despair by another name, another face, another boy who tends to a garden of games. alcaldes to the winner; does it matter what I have to say? tragedy known by the look of indifference on your pretty face. why do you claim a piece of my heart, carrying it [...]

wilted leaves and petals

wilted leaves and petals

whenever i look at flowers, im reminded of the lies. “lilies are just as lovely, but they could never compare to your eyes?” wilted leaves and petals that no longer bleed, the juxtaposition between the two, were obtuse yet you promised me flowers today and yesterday, last week, every Valentine’s Day. i grew to hate [...]

a day

a day

a day spilling with languid words and idle rhymes. a day that speaks with forked tongues and vivid minds. today we celebrate the words are hearts are too timid to speak, today we give voice to thoughts we are unprepared to think. happy national poetry day to the dreamers who need only a pen to [...]