Vieja

Vieja

Take me to the cove

Where I took you once before 

Where the sun on your skin

Made me fall once more 

Where your eyes searched my soul

And took till dusk to explore 

Where my words caught up with yours

And slowed them down some more

Where the sun was down by three

And the moon up by four

Where the daylight decided 

That by nighttime Id be yours

Where I remember all of 

The thoughts of you I adore

Vieja

I want you to know

That all for us I'm for

A Fragment of You

She mentioned your name and it took everything that I am to not spill my heart out and tell her about all of the feelings for you that I felt growing inside of me and how much of myself that I would give up for just a fragment of you. 

A Beautiful Kind of Ugly

Emotions are supposed to be raw, ugly, brutal. You don't want someone to sort of love you. You want that love to be a bursting fire, not a candle flame. 

Teach Me Something.

But high school doesn't teach you how to forgive someone. I know that the universe is ever expanding and I know that you can't kill viruses with pills and I know every president that has ever served but I'm still trying to figure out how to make my throat burn less every time you open your mouth. 

I Found You

I'm staying alive 

In hopes of finding

Something to 

Stay alive for. 

Thankfully,

I found you. 

Vulnerability

I tried to describe you to someone yesterday 

But all I could think about was how 

You make me feel like the sky

When the sun returns on a rainy day

And even if I never find any words

To justify how your mind and your laugh

Somehow make me completely free 

I want you to know that your vulnerability

Is safe with me

This isn't a poem.

This isn't beautiful. 

Life isn't beautiful. 

Death isn't beautiful. 

That's the thing about death,

It doesn't get spoken of.

Life, life gets remembered. 

Death, it gets covered. 

American

You ask me my race,

I reply with American. 

I suppose you're right,

When you say American isn't a race. 

American can be many races. 

But I am in fact nothing but American. 

That is the problem.

A response of "American"

Calls for instant discredit,

On the only race I have ever known.