Posts
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A Silent Song
Tell me you love me, that you will never let me go
Treat me like you’ve found me after I was lost in the snow
Put me on a pedestal like we are in a show
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The Girl I Used To Be
I told my notebook about you
She used to love you, the girl I used to be
Now she can’t even remember the last time I said I was head over heels for you
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Mi Familia
I’ve been getting unreasonably upset recently
I don’t know what's wrong with me
Everything comes out as a silent plea
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How You Made Me Fall
I stare at you, taking in all of your beauty now that you’re showing me something different
It’s cute honestly
How your cheeks get all red when I speak
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Time Blindness That Creates Sleepless Nights
I can’t sleep
I’ve been staying up past my time for days
10 PM
10:30 PM
Jumps to 11:30 in the blink of an eye
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Mi corazón ha formado un muro
I’m scared of love
Really, I am
I don’t know how to love
All I know is how to defend
Defend my heart
Loves
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Concealing Comfort
Concealing Comfort:
The day I saw you
Hanging there,
I knew we’d be the best of friends.
Bought you in a flash,
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The Next Step
What do I do,
as a black woman,
when they get control?
When the consequences
don't matter anymore?
When I watch my people
get bullied,
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Four Years
I'm scared.
I can't believe we're here
Again.
I can't believe this is reality
Again.
Four years
They say.
It's only four years.
But it's four years
Of a living hell for me.
They laugh
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November Fifth
No one can predict
Our country's future
Various people watching and waiting
Eager and scared for the outcome
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C-
High expectations
For myself
Fear of failing
Is something I will never
Escape
Each red mark
On the paper
Another mark
To myself
My confidence
My pride
The papers around me