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Best Poems Written by Kimberly Ruiz

Below are the all-time best Kimberly Ruiz poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Happily Ever After

I close my eyes
Squeeze them tight
Pray I float away
To some magical night

I’ve been wishing away the life I have
And dreaming of a life I’ll never have
This is the crutch in my plans
My Achilles heel
My search for hope only proves to fail
And loneliness is what I feel
It seems that happily ever after is but a fairy tale

I sit beneath the crashing waters
Waiting for something that truly matters
I watch my dreams roll back away from me
I watch them get lost in the endless sea
These waves have depleted my existence of all significance
I’m gasping for air and I can’t see a way out of this

Is it all just a dream I made up in my head?
Would it all be better if I just went to bed?
Let me dream away and don’t wake me up
The cold reality of life just doesn’t give up
Let me dream away and then I can pretend
That I’ll live happily ever after until the end

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A Time For Change

A life to be born
While a generation sworn
To corruption and passivity
Tolerance is a novelty
Empty minds are filled with lies
Using acceptance as a disguise
They preach it doesn’t matter how you live
The line has been blurred, something’s got to give
The blindness tells us we’re all free
But no one lives to what their meant to be
Chained down by the belief that everyone’s right
Discouraged to stand up and fight the good fight
It doesn’t matter the choices we make
We’re the ones in charge of deciding our fate
As we follow this path of moral destruction
The truth crumbles away in a violent eruption
The frailty of man comes up to the surface
As we lose sight of our God given purpose
As we move our world falls apart
We’re killing souls and losing heart
When did it become wrong to be right?
Why are we silent when it’s time to fight?
It’s time to turn from darkness and step towards the light
But we give into pressure and back away in fright
Souls are lost as time continues to count down
But courage and integrity are nowhere to be found
Desperation gives way, and the clock counts on
A yearning in our hearts say a new time has dawned
A time to break down the walls and say what’s true
A time to say it matters what you do

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Shoot To Kill

Press me in
Turn me out
Fill me up with doubt
I’m a blank slate here
You can write it in clear
Who you think I am
What I’m all about
One word can tear my walls down
And one chance can turn my fate around
A moment can take you away
Take you to a better day

It’s all by chance
So I think I’ll roll the die
Pray I may advance
Cause I’m just getting by

Truth is I don’t know what I’m doing here
I’m not seeing anything clear
It all goes dark and I lose my sight
I know it’s time to stand and fight

Cause when all that mattered is lost
And the monsters steal your will
You’ve got to count the cost
And just shoot to kill

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Monsters

Capture me in your wake
Promising my heart won’t break
Lead me out of this destructive path
Save me from the fall of the aftermath
I see it all clear
I lost all I once held dear
Taken away by a moment of selfishness
I’m lying alone in my own emptiness

Goodbye monsters 
Don’t even bother
Pulling me down
Not this time around 
No matter what I’m holding on 
Daring you to bring it on

I’m breaking free out of this
Don’t want to live like this
I’m getting swallowed by the walls of passivity
Break me free of this captivity
It’s time to tell the monsters to move on
Time to let the chains go and carry on
Make no mistake there’s a fighter in me
These monsters won’t get the best of me

Goodbye monsters 
Don’t even bother
Pulling me down
Not this time around 
No matter what I’m holding on 
Daring you to bring it on

Mistakes build up in a sea of regrets
Reminding me the guilt I want to forget
And my enemies mock me as I walk by
Spreading their sickness, telling me lies
Everyone’s pretending to be okay
Truth is we’re all falling away
This charade never helped me anyway
Now I want to do more than just get by

Goodbye monsters 
Don’t even bother
Pulling me down
Not this time around 
No matter what I’m holding on 
Daring you to bring it on

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A New Day

They look at me and all they see is porcelain
A fragile girl breaking within
Underestimated of my highest potential
Reaching too far will be my downfall
But I won’t listen to the voices
Saying I can’t handle these life choices
I’ve seen what I’ve seen
And I’ve done what I’ve done
Can’t erase my mistakes, just got to move on
People point and laugh, but they don’t know the real me
They see who I was, not who I can be

Let me run wild and free
Live out love and just let it be
The past is gone, a new day has come
My story has now only begun

I’ll shatter the walls of vulnerability
Let them fall to open up possibility
I’ve been running for so long I don’t know where to go
Something in my soul has been begging me to know
What have I got to be afraid of?
What have I got to be hiding from?
I’ve got nothing else to lose
So I’ll steer this boat any direction I chose
I’ll show them I’m more than just porcelain
There’s unbreakable strength coming from within

Let me run wild and free
Live out love and just let it be
The past is gone, a new day has come
My story has now only begun

Isn’t it amazing?
Isn’t it great?
How history stands the test of time
Repeating itself every time
Proving some things never change
That we’re the actors and the world’s the stage
It seems like our work is futile
Like our efforts aren’t even worth while
But we chose what we say what we do
We walk down the path we chose

Let me run wild and free
Live out love and just let it be
The past is gone, a new day has come
My story has now only begun

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Best of Me

Wake up
Sound the alarm
Your days are numbered
Life is passing you by
Don’t count on tomorrow to be the person you should
That’s a lie, truth is you never would
Change the tide today
Leave your chains at bay
Let these hurdles before you be only a memory
For the mirror reflects your worst enemy
You needed reasons to stay behind
But a lack of contentment was all you could find
Haunted by a bleak picture of what could have been
A deep cry of desperation begins from within
It’s time to let the walls of self protection fall
Throw your hands up in the air and surrender it all
As stubbornness and pain melts freedom flows
Revival of your soul abounds as you simply let go
No more waiting around
It’s time to be set free
Hope is found 
I’m giving the best of me

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Words

Words sting farther than you know
They stay alive long after you go
I built myself up to the person I wanted to be
But it all shattered with what you couldn’t see
I fade into the faces of a busy crowd
And dream of the words I want to say out loud
Words that release my anxious thoughts
Words from the heart that cannot be bought
Simple words like, “I love you”
That ring deep and true
Words that open me up and bare my soul
Words that weigh so heavy they take a toll
Words like, “everything’s not okay”
And, “I think I need some time to get away”
I want so much to get away from my doubt
To escape this numbing and loveless drought
I need to find the right words to say
Words that can free me of this pain
I need to find the words I want to say
Words that balance honesty and refrain
These words are burning a hole in my heart
And all of my weaknesses are coming out
They fly fiercely across the pages of my mind
As I begin to see my insecurities unwind
They rage war to rise up and show what’s true
Threatening the lives they belong to
Fear rises as I let go and just let be
Breathing out the words that set me free

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Fighter

I’ve been to the brink of utter destruction
Watched my dreams sink down to desolation
The hole in my soul is screaming only what I know
That I gave up a long time ago
I’m sorry I didn’t rise to the challenge
I just laid to waste, broken and damaged
Truth is I’ve been feeling this all along
This nagging in my heart that something is wrong
As time passes on I’m losing myself
But this broken heart won’t mend itself
Passing through, it’s the pain I feel
Reminding me that love is real
It’s that tiny spark that ignites a fire
That spreads throughout and turns me into a fighter
So when the storm rages on
And the pain has only begun
And if change never comes
I know I’ll be standing here when it’s all said and done

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As Good As It Gets

Here I go again
Same story, different day
Now I feel the rain
Washing my dreams away
This uphill battle has come to a hault
My legs go weak and I wilt under pressure
The enemy whispers it’s all my fault
Doubting myself, I find no pleasure

Tears streaming down my face
I see my reflection in the mirror
There’s a crushed spirit that lost the race
As the broken pieces of my dreams becomes clearer
The past rises up and shatters my confidence
Where is that girl who dreamed without hesitation?
Deep down I know fate doesn’t happen by coincidence
Desperately I search for the girl breathing ambition

Peering closer I can see the enemy
Its empty eyes well up with tears
As it points back right at me
I’m the one who’s been hiding all these years
Crying out to have something to live for
Praying to reverse time and erase these regrets
I need to believe there is something more
Or is this as good as it gets?

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Road To Redemption

Straining down a path of traps and deceit
I was heading towards the end of me
My reckless abandon led me to defeat
Flooded with lies I failed to see
Choked on the agonies of these misconceived beliefs
Running to escape provided no relief
Haunted by memories of my childhood
I learned to cope through rebellion
Living by the rules of the self
Sensing my depravity there was nothing else
Stringing together the chains that locked me in
These self destructive patterns decomposed me from within
Sincerity lay in a pile of waste
Searching for pleasures that were sweet to taste
Sacrificing integrity to gratify flesh
Blinded and bound to this self pursued mess
Looking down the shattered road I had walked
Was a pale reflection of the life I had stopped
Somber and in horror of the deepest kind
Reaching for a rescue and a sound mind
My pain flowing down in humble tears 
I’m broken down on bended knee
Giving up this bondage I’m facing my fears
Covered in grace I am set free