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Best Poems Written by Miranda Alegria

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Of Windows and Jars

Loving you feels like trying to keep unattainable things locked up,
kisses on jars, 
touches saved on empty containers for later,
your laughter described in detail
on hundreds of pieces of paper.
Or the look in your eyes 
in golden picture frames on my walls.
It feels like chasing the wind, 
breathing you in,
and when I breath you out you run, 
abandoning me,
leaving me breathless, 
heartless, hopeless,
leaving me with nothing.

And I can't help any of it,
my resolutions dilate on your skin,
as you make it sound so sweet 
when you take everything from me.
It feels like you're doing me a favor,
when you lie as you put me down,
for sacrifice or worship, 
I can’t never guess which will it be.
I let all of you take all that’s left of me,
under the moonlight that’s sneaking through the window
shining white and cold dressed for the occasion,
like it knowns all those things that I keep denying
the mistakes I keep on making,
my heart that continues to go on only for you,
and your eyes that have no intention
of saving a single part of me.

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Poisonous Smoke

I hate to think of myself
as a convenience store
that you only enter at night on a rush,
looking only at the things I have displayed.
You’re moving them out of place violently,
but ultimately getting none of them.

I hate to think of myself
as the one you know you can use
to draw your misery away from you,
to inhale all of your poisonous smoke,
I hate it, even if I’ve been waiting for so long
to be someone’s first choice.

I hate to think about myself
the same way I know you do,
crumpled tissue with everlasting patience
without even ground to stand on, ever,
the truth pains me and pulls me apart,
I don't want you to stop thinking about me at all.

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I Light Up At the Thought of You

And I burn all the way to ashes every single night,
my body refuses to let me rest as I cry.
I won’t be better until I have nothing else to give into,
and nothing else to get haunted by.

I burn for hours until I'm nothing but dust,
smoke floats out of my smile, my eyes are charcoal fire,
shining dim in the night until the flames die,
I wake up the next day to burnt marks on my walls.

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Depending On How We Fell

I think there are universes scattered across time,
where you have pink hair and I have green eyes,
and we live together, and we don’t like grapes.
Star crossed universes where what you and I had
never turned into something not worth having anymore.
I think of that one variable too much,
the one where the day arrived and so did your doubt,
once was enough, and we turned into a smile, polite,
a nod, a heartbreak on the street while passing by.
And I can’t stop thinking about it,
I drive myself crazy thinking about it,
how did I manage to land here of all pages,
and not in a different place at a different pace?
or any other one as long as you were there.
Do you look at the dreams I forgot to take with me?
or do you think I’m trying so incredibly hard
to break through the lovesick state you left me in?
In my head you think back, and then you know,
(in my head you always know
like a magician of sorts
like someone who listens
like someone who gets haunted and chased
by how much of me they can’t erase)
I’ll look at the portrait I made of you,
like all things that I can’t always keep close
I will keep remembering you.
You double sided dream wrecker,
shine and smile, willing to keep me on a locket,
but later decide my picture doesn’t fit any longer.
Be dramatic too, drink some tea during a storm,
and wish I didn't have to leave you alone,
wish that you didn’t break my heart,
until my only choices were to run away or to fall apart.
Listen to a song you certainly didn’t mean to put on ,
and play it high until the walls shake and nearly crumb.
(on purpose this time, and depending on how we fell)
With all you’ve got, wish you had stayed,
I know you’ll let go of me eventually.
As usual my words are never more than that,
more than things that don’t come true,
I wish you will never have to, though,
I wish for you to keep every single drop of love
that I ever made you feel
(it’s all yours, so am I)

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Skyline

I look, I stare and I wait
until your eyes meet my own
and my heartbeat skylines all the way up
you look away, I come back down
and I stay put expecting another hit
one more glimpse of blue
another taste
of sky.